Re: FVWM: Really StaysOnBottom

From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:25:40 +0000 (GMT)

 --- Stefan Kamphausen <mail_at_skamphausen.de> wrote:

>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I response in private because this mail doesn't contain much
> information for the world...

I've CC'ed fvwm, since my reply may well do so :)
 
> > > 2. and in my .fvwm2rc:
> > > Style "hidden" NoTitle, WindowListSkip, NoHandles, Sticky,
> \
> > > BorderWidth 0, Layer 0, ClickToFocus,
> StaysPut
> >
> ^^^^^^^
> > Try replacing that with: StaysOnBottom
>
> Of course I already did that but it didn't work. Funny enough: today
> it does :-)
> Don't ask me what my error was, probably I am guilty of some plain
> stupidity.

Probably :) But you have to remember that the commands *have* to be
consistent in terms of spelling:

startsonpage
StartsOnPage
STARTSONPAGE

are all equivilent and should work, yet:

Startsonpage
STartsonpage

will not.

> > > (And (just as a side note): is there any way to start a programm at
> a
> > > specific position besides the -geometry option? Like, having my
> > > XEmacs always live at +0+0?)
> >
> > Yes, add them to your ~/.Xdefaults file:
> >
> > XEmacs*Geometry: 0+0
>
> OK, now I have an alias for "xemacs" giving -geometry option.

No, the whole point of that file is so that you do not need the -geometry
option to Xemacs, since the resource hint for geometry is already defined
in the file.
 
> I must admit, though, that I liked the matched-window mechanism in
> Sawfish.
> BTW (and may now this email gets some public interest at all?): is
> there any plan to make the matching in regexp style?
> For example:
> REStyle "^mozilla" StartsOnPage ....

At the moment, nonse, since matching is done, either by Name, Class or
Resource.

-- Thomas Adam

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