I also found the fvwm changes troublesome since I had to spend a few hours (or was that days) redoing post.hook. I also feel something like <ctrl><tab> should raise and focus on successive windows. I found the default fvwm configuration anemic.
I solved this focus and raise problem, but I use <ctrl> rather than <alt> with <tab>. I sought to minimally change the default setup for fvwm in /etc/X11/fvwm2. I found that I do not need my own .fvwm2rc. All I need are ~/.fvwm2/init-restart.hook and ~/.fvwm2/post.hook. Below I include a portion of post.hook that solves your raise and focus problem. Below that, I enclose all of my init-restart.hook file. Being forced to redo fvwm congigurations, I saw and now use some wonderful tools that those wonderful fvwm guys put together. For example, like the common desk top environment, I have each "page" display a different background picture, one the earth with its cities, one black-and-white 0-1s, one fallen leaves, and one clouds. Also, whenever I interact with the X-window system, different sounds come through my speaker. I really like a Star Trek like soft-voiced "The system is coming up". Liking Unix, I consider these backgrounds and sounds glitz, largely not worthy of our time. I put them in because non-unix people only notice glitz, having no idea what a shell is. Indeed, non-unix people have largely entered the pre-historic era with the mouse carving out hieroglyphics. Unix is for the language literate and the computer literate. HERE IS SOME OF MY CODE FROM post.hook: # # Fvwm, mostly through defaults as sent, has the following possibilities: ##### Circulate windows: ##### # 1. <alt><tab> next window on current page # 2. <alt><shift><tab> previous window on current page # 3. <ctrl><alt><tab> next window (will de-iconify) on current page # 4. <ctrl><alt><shift><tab> previous window (will de-iconify) on current page # 9. <alt><click-3> or <F12> Raise-lower the window at current cursor-position, like Sun's "Front" key. # I make <control><tab> cycle and popup windows. # I believe this was the default before, but something has changed in fvwm2. # CirculateUp is obsolete. Key Tab A C Function next-and-raise AddToFunc next-and-raise I Next [CurrentPage !iconic] Focus + I Current Raise + I Current WarpToWindow 5p 5p Key Tab A SC Function previous-and-raise AddToFunc previous-and-raise I Prev [CurrentPage !iconic] Focus + I Current Raise + I Current WarpToWindow 5p 5p Key Tab A MC Function next-and-raise-icon AddToFunc next-and-raise-icon + I Next [CurrentPage] Focus + I Current Iconify -1 + I Current Raise + I Current WarpToWindow 5p 5p Key Tab A SMC Function previous-and-raise-icon AddToFunc previous-and-raise-icon + I Prev [CurrentPage] Focus + I Current Iconify -1 + I Current Raise + I Current WarpToWindow 5p 5p HERE ARE ALL MY LINES FROM init-restart.hook: + I Module FvwmIconMan #+ I Module FvwmWinList #I prefer FvwmIconMan + I Module FvwmBacker + I Module FvwmAudio # #I TRY THE FOLLOWNG for FvwmAuto 2000, 2 seconds --if window has focus, it # actually raises in 2 seconds. #Still, everybody dislikes any auto-raising. #+ I Module FvwmAuto 2000 # Because the last line of .fvwm2rc starts "FvwmPager 0 0", # here I kill FvwmPager and restart it, following the last paragraph of # README.sysrc.gz. # However, since FvwmButtons usually didn't swallow FvwmPager when I started # FvwmPager here, # I start the FvwmPager I want in post.hook. + I Wait FvwmPager + I KillModule FvwmPager ####+ I Module FvwmPager 0 3 # In post.hook, I swallow FvwmPager, so the above "KillModule FvwmPager" # interrupts and eliminates FvwmButtons also. # As a solution, I start FvwmButtons below. + I Module FvwmButtons > The behavior of the Focus command has changed in the version of fvwm2 > provided in hamm. > > /usr/doc/fvwm2/ChangeLog.gz says: > 2.0.46 > [snip] > 37. Focus command no longer raises - use an interpreted > focus-and-raise function if that's desired > > /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc (in both bo and hamm) contains the lines: > Key Tab A M Next [CurrentDesk !iconic] Focus > Key Tab A MS Prev [CurrentDesk !iconic] Focus > > I prefer the old behavior where Alt-Tab raised the window that it > shifted focus to, so I added the following lines to my > ~/.fvwm2/post.hook: > > DestroyFunc focus-and-raise > AddToFunc focus-and-raise > + "I" Raise > + "I" Focus > > Key Tab A M Next [CurrentDesk !iconic] focus-and-raise > Key Tab A MS Prev [CurrentDesk !iconic] focus-and-raise > > This works as long as my mouse is not in a window, but if it is, then > focus shifts back to the window that the mouse is in after it finishes > raising the next one. How can I duplicate the behavior of Focus in bo > where the focus stays with the newly raised window regardless of mouse > position? > > (This behavior is independent of SloppyFocus, which I normally use.) > > Kirk Hilliard > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
