Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes:

> On 15 January 2013 18:41, Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 15 January 2013 10:32, Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> hi everynody,
>>>> I have a lot of "style" settings, and up to now all worked perfwctly.
>>>> Today, I added a line for xzoom
>>>>
>>>>     Style "xzoom"   NoTitle, NoHandles, Sticky
>>>>
>>>> but these settings are ignored for all xzoom windows.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> What does FvwmIdent tell you about the name/class/resource of such a window?
>>
>> If I recall, 2 things can cause a bad style match,
>
> Three; you missed one.  :P
>
>> first, as you suggest, the windows may not have an intuitive 
>> name/class/resource.
>> That we can see with FvwmIdent.
>>
>> The other is that the window is created with some other name and then
>> gets it's name/class/resource later.  I forget how we diagnose that,
>> is it FvwmDebug?
>
> BugOpts DisplayNewWindowNames

Duh.

Looked at BugOpts twice, and here it says:

"This can help in finding the correct strings to use in the Style
command."

Talk about needing a page magnifier.

> Note that a window's class cannot be changed once the window is
> mapped; only in the WithDrawn state.  I've mentioned this a few times
> before on this list; only one or two GTK apps that I know of decide to
> change their title after the window has been mapped; transitioning
> from FVWM's default of "NoName" to something else -- but that won't be
> what's happening with XZoom.
>
> The third one is that style line ordering matters a great deal in the
> config file.

Well, yeah, but...

-- 
Dan Espen

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