mh@awds27.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman) (05/10/91)
if you do not use olvwm hit n now What do you think about using the window titles for determining what should be sticky ?? You could have a resource that is a list of regular expressions. If one of the expressions matches the window title the window would be made sticky. I perused the olvwm source a bit and it does not look too hard to do. This scheme seems like a good compromise to me. what does everybody else out there think ?
doehr@magellan.den.mmc.com (Brett B. Doehr) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May9.174620.8589@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>, mh@awds27.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman) writes: |> |> if you do not use olvwm hit n now |> This was no doubt posted recently, but I am a new reader of the group. Where does one get olvwm (I assume there is an FTP site)? --Brett. ============================================================| Brett B. Doehr Martin Marietta Astronautics Group | Voice: (303) 977-1504 Internet: doehr@den.mmc.com | Fax: (303) 977-1530 America Online: BrettBD | "Writing software that only a mother could love..." | ============================================================|
fcaggian@kepler.com (Frank Caggiano) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May9.174620.8589@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>, mh@awds27.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman) writes: > > What do you think about using the window titles for determining what > should be sticky ?? You could have a resource that is a list of regular > expressions. If one of the expressions matches the window title the > window would be made sticky. The problem with this is that the title bar is, on the one hand too variable to uniquely identify a window you want sticky and on the other hand its not variable enough to differentiate between instances of an application. For example in my xterm and cmdtool windows I use the bar to display the machine I'm logged on the cwd and the directory stack, what regex would identify these windows uniquely. As another example I have three xclocks for displaying three timezones, the title bar has the timezone. In this case I would need three entries for the three windows instead of just one XClock entry. Finally my console window is the only xterm which I have sticky. The title bar is identical to other xterm windows, how would I make just this instance sticky? The WM_CLASS attribute is designed just for this type of idetification of windows. I don't belive the title bar would work nearlly as well. -- Frank Caggiano INTERNET: fcaggian@kepler.com Kepler Financial Management, Ltd. UUCP: ..!uunet!kepler1!fcaggian 100 North Country Rd. fax: (516) 751-8678 Sekauket, NY 11733 voice: (516) 689-6300
sdo@piccolo.East.Sun.COM (Scott Oaks - Sun Consulting NYC) (05/13/91)
>> >> What do you think about using the window titles for determining what >> should be sticky ?? You could have a resource that is a list of regular >> expressions. If one of the expressions matches the window title the >> window would be made sticky. > > The WM_CLASS attribute is designed just for this type of idetification >of windows. I don't belive the title bar would work nearlly as well. For these reasons, the WM_CLASS and WM_INSTANCE variables are checked. However, since deskset applications and most XView applications don't set these, I'm planning on allowing the WM_NAME field -- which is what gets displayed in the title bar -- as well. But since xrdb munges multi-worded symbols, it's not clear what form this will take. -sdo -- -sdo (sdo@piccolo.east.sun.COM)