On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:46:48AM +1000, Sam Izzo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just writing this big email about how to get my gnomeicu window to grab
> focus when I pop it up with the key binding that I created for it. Then I
> tried adding a +I Wait GnomeICU into the function that does the popping up,
> and it worked!
>
> If anyone is interested, this is how I did it:
>
> AddToFunc gnomeicu-showhide
> + I Exec exec gnomeicu-client showhide
> + I Wait GnomeICU
> + I All (GnomeICU) Move 80 10
> + I All (GnomeICU) Raise
> + I All (GnomeICU) FlipFocus
>
> Key A A CS Function gnomeicu-showhide
>
> Actually, now I have some questions: when I select a name to send a message
> to and hit enter on the name, the message dialog pops up, but at random
> locations on the screen, and it doesn't have focus. Is it possible to have
> it always pop up in the centre and grab focus? Is this just some funky
> event thing?
Most likely, gnumeicu is moving its windows around the desktop.
Fvwm never moves a window to one place and then another (unless
specifically told to do so).
To tell fvwm to honour the position of the message dialog as the
application set it, try
Style <name_of_dialog_window> UsePPosition
in your .fvwm2rc (or remove the NoPPosition style from the config
file). If that doesn't work or the dialog comes up at a place
where you don't like it, try setting the position in your
$HOME/.Xdefaults file:
<resource_name>.geometry: +x+y
(you can find out the resource name with the FvwmIdent module).
Then issue the command
$ xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
to tell X about the changed file.
> Perhaps I should just read up about that.. :)
>
> The second thing is that with the above function, gnomeicu pops up at some
> random location but is then moved to 80%, 10% on the screen, so you see it pop
> up elsewhere before it moves to that location. Is there a way to not have it
> do this? Because it's kind of ugly.
The most important thing is: don't just be angry about what it
does but tell the developers you hate that, that applications
shouldn't move around their windows because you know better where
you want them. People have to be discouraged to write
applications this way.
Now your answer: in the latest development versions (2.5.2 and
later), there are new styles that allow full control over what the
client may and may not do. It may be the sledgehammer method, but
as a last resort it should work:
Style <class_name> NoPPosition, FixedPPosition
If that still doesn't work, try this in addition:
Style <class_name> FixedUSPosition
(If the latter line does work, it indicates clearly a bug in the
application).
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sat Aug 10 2002 - 21:57:37 BST