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Dr. G. Buerger

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Aug 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/14/98
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Hi,

everytime I (re)start fvwm2 I get a new Icon order in WinList. I have
no clue if there is any rule to this.

Is it? - If so, I would like to have my own.

Gerd
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Richard Lister

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Aug 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/14/98
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:23:39 +0100
"Dr. G. Buerger" <bue...@pik-potsdam.de>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: Icon order in WinList':

> Hi,
>
> everytime I (re)start fvwm2 I get a new Icon order in WinList. I have
> no clue if there is any rule to this.
>
> Is it? - If so, I would like to have my own.


Without looking at the source I would guess that winlist just dumps
out the stack of windows in the order they were reparented by fvwm.

You could try using FvwmIconman, which will sort the list, and can also
give different lists for different applications.

Also, the Perl module interface X11::Fvwm comes with an example winlist
replacement PerlTkWL, which you could hack around with to provide exactly
what you require. If you don't speak Perl, let me know what you're after
and maybe I'll do it for fun :-)

See http://www.byz.org:80/~randy/perl/X11::Fvwm/

Ric

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Bob Woodside

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Aug 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/17/98
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On 14-Aug-98 Richard Lister wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:23:39 +0100
> "Dr. G. Buerger" <bue...@pik-potsdam.de>
> wrote concerning 'FVWM: Icon order in WinList':
>> Hi,
>>
>> everytime I (re)start fvwm2 I get a new Icon order in WinList. I have
>> no clue if there is any rule to this.
>>
>> Is it? - If so, I would like to have my own.
>
>
> Without looking at the source I would guess that winlist just dumps
> out the stack of windows in the order they were reparented by fvwm.

Yes, Ric, that's what happens; and no, Gerd, there's not a
provision for specifying a sorting order to WinList.

The re-ordering sounds like the old Fvwm-alters-the-stacking-
order-on-restart problem. My StackingOrder patch (in unofficial_patches)
corrects this, among other things, for 2.0.46.

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