Re: FVWM: Changing style of maximized window?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:18:04 -0400

"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee.fvwm_at_gmx.net> writes:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2003 00:31, Dan Espen wrote:
> > > Stupid me - of course it seems to be possible. For example
> > >
> > > DestroyFunc FuncFvwmMaximizeFullScreen
> > > AddToFunc FuncFvwmMaximizeFullScreen
> > > + I ThisWindow (Maximized) Style $n Title, BorderWidth 4,
> > > HandleWidth 4 + I CondCase (NoMatch) Style $n NoTitle, BorderWidth 16,
> > > HandleWidth 16 + I CondCase (NoMatch) Raise
> > > + I CondCase (NoMatch) UpdateStyles
> > > + I Maximize
> > >
> > > works. Now I just need to better understand the above commands and tune
> > > this to make it look nice. BTW, what is that "$n" variable, I couldn't
> > > find it in the man page?
> >
> > I would have suggested $n but I think its not a general purpose solution.
> > If you have one emacs frame maximized and another not maximized, the
> > above will change both of them.
>
> This is not nice. Are there any hopes for "MaximizedStyle" and
> "UnMaximizedStyle" commands?

Some day.

> Another solution might be to allow the window id $[w.id] as a style name in
> the "Style" command. Would that be hard to implement?

We recently had a patch that applied styles by window id.
One problem is that if you close a window and then open a new one,
the new window might have the same windowid.

The style by windowid would have to be removed when the window closes.

> > It may be good enough though. I usually work with 2 xemacs frames, but
> > I change the second frames resource name ($r) with:
> >
> > (select-frame (make-frame '((name . "uniquename"))))
>
> The problem is that EMACS was just an example. For other applications that I
> run in multiple instances (e.g. rxvt) this solution is, of course, not
> applicable.

I start all my rxvt's with -name to make them unique on resource name.

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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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