Re: FVWM: Conditional Commands

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:59:21 +0000

On 24 Oct 2002 03:17:49 +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
>
> How does one use the Conditional Commands to select a particular window ?
>
> The only thing that I've been able to get working is WindowId, by explicitly
> specifying the window id in this fashion...
>
> Key F10 A M WindowID 0x280000e Iconify toggle
>
> But I just can't figure out how to get it going using window titles with any
> of the other commands
>
> Key F10 A M Any (CurrentDesk, Mutt) Iconify toggle
>
> Key F10 A M Any (CurrentDesk, "Mutt") Iconify toggle
>
> etc have no effect whatsoever.

You should use either "All" or "Next", not "Any".

> I guess I'm missing something very basic out here.(I'm using the CVS version
> ... couldn't wait till 2.5.4 was released before I could use the tinting
> effects! :o)

It will be released once the recent bug fixes are at least tested for some
days.

> Also is there any way to get windowID of a running window using the window
> title ?

It is tricky, but possible. From a shell:

  % xwininfo -name "FvwmConsole" | grep "Window id" | cut -d" " -f4

Regards,
Mikhael.
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