Re: FVWM: Windowing Z-order

From: Colin Phillips <colinp_at_oeone.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:12:25 -0400

Great! Thanks! Now, just a few more questions

1) Is there a limit to the number of layers I can have?
2) What is the most stable version of 2.3.x for doing this? I currently
have .30
3) Where is StaysOnBottom documented?

Thanks in advance!
-- Colin

Dominik Vogt wrote:

>On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:13:59PM -0400, Colin Phillips wrote:
>
>>Is there any way (in the fvwm2rc file OR dynamically at runtime) in
>>fvwm2 of specifying z-ordering of windows?
>>
>>Here's what I need to do:
>>
>>1) I have windows A, B, C, D and E (and B, C, and D are all spawned by A
>>- not E)
>>2) window A is always below every other window
>>3) window B must stay below C (whenever the two are on screen at the
>>same time)
>>4) window D must stay above B but below C
>>5) window E must stay above all other windows EXCEPT windows that it may
>>spawn
>>
>>Is there any way of doing something this complex with fvwm2?
>>
>
>You can do this with fvwm-2.3.x if all these windows can be
>uniquely identified by name/icon name/class/resource:
>
> DefaultLayers 2 10 20
> Style A StaysOnBottom
> Style B Layer 4
> Style D Layer 6
> Style C Layer 8
>
>Replace A, B, C and D with the unique title/... of the
>corresponding windows and put this in yopur .fvwm2rc.
>
>However, it is not possible to find out which window 'spawned'
>another window. Windows are created by applications, not by other
>windows. The X server does not pass the information which process
>created a window to other clients. Thus, in general it is
>impossible to treat windows started from one shell differently
>than windows started from a different shell.
>
>Bye
>
>Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
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OEone Corporation
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