On Wed, 2 May 2001, Dan Espen wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir_at_technion.ac.il> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Dan Espen wrote:
> > 
> > > Tzafrir Cohen writes:
> > 
> > > > Any ideas? What should I check?
> > > 
> > > Download the 2.3.31 beta, its all built in and works very nicely.
> > 
> > Are you sure? Is this a known problem that was fixed somewhere?
> 
> Perhaps I wasn't clear.
> 
> In the  latest betas, there is  a  built in alt-tab  key  binding.  It
> brings  up a   menu (windowlist) using   the new  "select on  release"
> feature that lets  you hold down alt,  and keep pressing tab until you
> get to the line you want.  When  you release the  keys, the window you
> are on   in the  menu is  selected.    If you keep  pressing  tab, the
> selection wraps from the bottom of the menu to the  top.  If you press
> alt-tab-tab the previous window is selected.  If you iconify a window,
> and press alt-tab the iconified window is selected.
> 
> In short, its perfect, and you don't have to put anything in your config
> file.  Just like the original.
I have no problem with editing config files. I put a special "config"
button in my Buttons to open .fvwm2rc .
OK. I downloaded,, compiled, copied it from the build machine, and ran it. 
There are some nice improvements. But the size has increased.
The windows list does not strike me as a good default: it lacks an
indication of whether the window is minimized, for instance. 
The "select on release" does not appear to be working.
When I press Enter I get the message:
  [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'WindowListFunc'
and nothing happens.
After I added the definition of WindowListFunc from ConfigFvwmDefaults all
I needed was to press enter.
And anyway, the original problem was not resolved: When I set my original
mapping of Alt-Tab, it still won't cycle through the list of windows: it
only advances in the list, and won't advance beyond the last window in the
list.
Is this a bug with me or is it a feature and I'm not reading the man page
correctly?
> 
> > I think that this problem is a bit to obvious to have been missedif it
> > had affected every user. So I figure that it is a more spesific problem.
> > Therefore the fact that it works fine for someone does not mean that an
> > upgrade will solve the problem (not to mention that it may introduce other
> > problems).
> > 
> > Building another version is a bit of a complicated operation. I'd like to
> > see if there aren't any better suggestions.
> 
> Hmm, we don't think its that hard.  We do have RPMs available.
For solaris? :(
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Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 15:50:32 BST