Re: FVWM: CLIENT_MACHINE for Style attributes?

From: Brian Servis <servis_at_purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:39:22 -0500 (EST)

*- On 13 Jun, Michael Han wrote about "Re: FVWM: CLIENT_MACHINE for Style attributes? "
> Previously...
>>Is it possible to use a window's CLIENT_MACHINE for Style attributes.
>>I often have shells opened up on several different hosts, all with their
>>DISPLAY set to my local machine. It would be great to be able to use
>>the StartsOn[Desk|Page] property to constrain the windows from those
>>hosts to certain desktops. This is especially true when I am running
>>the same app on the different hosts and thus the windows all have the
>>same NAME, CLASS and RESOURCE strings.
>
> This kind of enhancemant has considered in the past. I don't remember
> what came of the conversation last time.
>
> In the meantime, I take it that the window title get set by the app
> you run, e.g. VIM sets the xterm title to "VIM -- /path/to/file". This
> is what you mean? Why not just open these xterms with the -t flag as
> in
>
> xterm -lservis -title foohost -e [rlogin/ssh] foohost
>
> and style match the arbitrary string you set? This is what I do from
> home using the following bits from my .fvwm2rc:
>

Unfortunately it is not that simple. I run other apps like MATLAB,
ANSYS, etc that have lots of windows(transients) popping up & down all
the time and I can not set their titles individually for each machine.
The only difference between them is CLIENT_MACHINE resource.

-- 
Brian 
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