I’d like to automatically change the layer of a particular window (emacs) when it goes fullscreen. Also the window should be changed back to layer 4 when leaving fullscreen. Is there a way to acheive that? I found this in the FAQ: fvwm.org/documentation/faq/#3.30 and it’s probably part of the solution. But how to I trigger this upon entering and leaving fullscreen.
Background: I’m trying to come up with a configuration for my xfce4-panel. Basically I’d like the same behavior as in OS X: the panel should never be covered by any other window unless that other window is in fullscreen. My planned solution: put the panel on layer 5 and temporarily change the layer of windows requesting fullscreen to 6. A weakness of that solution is that maximizing a window will put its top under the panel but I couldn’t find a way to avoid that. It’s possible to change the behavior of maximize such that a bottom part of the screen is spared (Maximize 100 -20p) but that doesn’t seem to work with the top part of the screen.
I ThisWindow (Maximized) WindowStyle Title, Borders
I TestRc (!Match) WindowStyle !Title, !Borders
I TestRc (!Match) Raise
I TestRc (!Match) UpdateStyles
I Maximize ewmhiwa[/code]On my system the window goes upon my panels in fullscreen. Also it has no title and borders.
To put your panel to layer 5]
Style “xfce4-panel” Layer 0 5
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Also, you can define a working area to prevent windows to overlap panels, pager and that stuff]#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Define bands at the edge of the screen. It is used to compute the
Working Area
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EwmhBaseStruts [/code]
– Thomas –
Works beautifully! Thank you very much, Thomas. FVWM is a fantastic tool but without your service in this forum many people (like myself) wouldn’t be able to fully take advantage of it.
Follow-up question: what if an application requests fullscreen (e.g. a movie player or Firefox). Is it possible to catch that and to change the layer when that happens?
Haven’t seen this behaviour yet (or can’t remember ) … anyway …
I’ve played around that and if the application requests fullscreen and sets _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN then you can use the code below.
First you need an event handler]#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Event Handler
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DestroyModuleConfig FvwmEventWMState: *
*FvwmEventWMState: configure_window FE-WMStateChanged[/code]
As the event “configure_window” appear the function FE-WMStateChanged will be executed.
The function]DestroyFunc FE-WMStateChanged
AddToFunc FE-WMStateChanged
I Current (Maximized, Raised, CurrentPage)
PipeRead ‘if [ xprop -id $[w.id] |grep -c _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN = 1 ]; then
echo WindowId $[w.id] Layer 0 10;
fi;’[/code]What does this function:
It checks wether the current window is maximized, raised and on the current page.
It runs xprop to get information about this window. If it found _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN it sets the window to layer 10 (or whatever layer you like).
To activate this stuff add to your StartFunction]# activate event module for WM_STATE changes
I Module FvwmEvent FvwmEventWMState[/code]
:mrgreen:
– Thomas –
) … anyway …