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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
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Subject: Re: Lesstif (motif compatible) package.
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On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > > You can certainly configure fvwm do do this, usually on Alt-Tab.  fvwm 
> > > also allows for modules, which is nice.  One of the modules available 
> > > (currently only for fvwm95) gives me the *ONE* feature I like from Win95, 
> > > which is a bar with a button on it for each window, so I can click on a 
> > > button and go to that window (uniconifying as necessary).  Now if only 
> > > the bugger would go on the right of the screen instead of the top or the 
> > > bottom. :-)
> > 
> > 	Hmmm, I am using fvwm and it only does it with Alt-F7/F8 and not 
> > Alt-Tab, how did you get it to work with alt-TAB?  Also, is the bar with 
> > a button actually a feature that comes out of the package or do you need 
> > to configure fvwm to do it?
> 
> A long time ago, I edited my .fvwmrc to do this.  It's really not hard to 
> do, once you understand the layout of the .fvwmrc.  In fact, there's an 
> amazing list of things that you can do once you learn to modify the 
> .fvwmrc.  From a routine in the .fvwm2rc, I believe that you can now set 
> up an action (menu, button, hotkey, etc) that will bring your mail 
> program to the front, uniconify it if necessary, or *RUN* it if it's not 
> already running.  Haven't been able to get it to work yet, as the sample 
> is for xmh, and I'm using pine.
> 
> Here's the key bindings you are talking about
> 
> Key F7  A       M       Next [*] focus
> Key F8  A       M       Prev [*] focus
> 
> I *BELIEVE* (haven't tried it in 2.0) that the line
> 
> Key Tab A	M	Next [*] focus
> 
> should do the trick. (Suddenly, he realizes that he's running Fvwm95 
> *NOW*, so modifies his .fvwm2rc95, restarts Fvwm95, and comfirms that it 
> works)
> 
> As for the task bar, it is included in the sample fvwm95rc file that 
> comes with the Fvwm95 distribution.

	Hmmm, does fvwm95 still use .fvwmrc?

Richard