Subject: FvwmButtons: suggestion for enhancement

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:09:41 -0500 (CDT)

Full_Name: Rouben Rostamian
Version: 2.2.2
CVS_Date: 
OS: Linux 2.2
X_Server: XFree86
Submission from: (NULL) (130.85.20.10)

This is a suggestion for an enhancement in FvwmButtons:

>From the FvwmButtons man page:

              The Exec command has a  small extension when used
              in Actions, its syntax is here:

                Exec ["hangon"] command

              When FvwmButtons finds such an  Exec  command,  the
              button  will  remain pushed in until a window whose
              name or class matches the  qouted  portion  of  the
              command is encountered.

It appears that in the current (2.2.2) implementation the "hangon"
part of the command does not recognize wildcards.  It would be a useful
enhancement to add such functionality.

Specifically, one of my FvwmButtons launches the Maple symbolic algebra
program which brings up a window with X Window Class  
"Maple V Release 5.1".  After a recent Maple upgrade, the Class changed
to "Maple6".  If "hangon" accepted wildcards, I'd have rather specified
"Maple*" for "hangon", to take care of this and future Maple updates.
 
-- 
Rouben Rostamian <[email-masked]>

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