*- On 13 Jun, Brian Servis wrote about "FVWM: CLIENT_MACHINE for Style attributes?"
>
> 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.
>
As I was think about this, I thought about something that could come in
handy when defining Style attributes. It would great if the Style
attributes could be defined individually or globally for each of the
windows NAME, CLASS, RESOURCE and MACHINE strings. What I mean is that
say I want all windows with a windowname of 'transient' to have NoTitle
but those same windows from CLIENT_MACHINE='remote' to StartIconic.
Under the current implementation I don't think this is possible(Correct
me if I am wrong). So perhaps the windowname could be either a single
quoted string for the global case or sets of quoted strings(no spaces
between), one for the windowname and one for the string to match
against. An example:
# no second quote immediately after the windowname means global
Style "transient" NoTitle
# a second quoted pair immediately after the windowname means apply
# only to the window with client string matching "remote"
Style "transient""client""remote" StartIconic
# If there are an even pair then the first of the pair is the string and
# second is the windowname to match.
Style "client""remote" StartOnDesk 2
This enhancement, if added, would be backwards compatible since a lack
of a additional quoted strings would mean apply to all windows matching
the windowname as is the case now.
Just a thought, send to /dev/null if you want,
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Brian
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Received on Sun Jun 13 1999 - 12:15:43 BST