On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Colin Phillips wrote:
> Great! Thanks! Now, just a few more questions
>
> 1) Is there a limit to the number of layers I can have?
Yes, you can have no more than 2147483647 layers. I guess you
will encounter some difficulties creating this many windows :-)
The lowest layer you can use is 1.
> 2) What is the most stable version of 2.3.x for doing this? I currently
> have .30
The latest released one is .32 which is also the most stable one.
> 3) Where is StaysOnBottom documented?
In the man page as an option of the "Style" command:
StaysOnBottom puts the window in the bottom layer. This layer
can be changed by the built-in command DefaultLayers; the
default is 2.
Actually,
Style foo StaysOnBottom
is equivalent to
Style foo Layer <n>
where <n> is the first argument of the DefaultLayers command (or 2
if none is given).
>
> 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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