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Title: fvwm2 and focus

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fvwm2 and focus

The user's surface of the fvwm(2) is widely able to be configured.

Just only for the focus policy is difficult to reach an agreement among different users. The S.u.S.E. distribution's configuration is adjusted to FocusFollowsMouse and ClickToRaise .

In the fvwm2, such a behaviour of the Windowmanager can be fixed not only for the entire surface, but for each window separately. The corresponding style statements have the following form:

Style  "window name"  focus behaviour
Window name is in general the programme name. Should the configuration be valid for all windows, then a * is to be set instead of the window name . Patterns (e.g. "*lock" sets the configuration for clock, xlock, etc.) are allowed too. Please pay attention to the order: the general ones before the special ones.

Focus behaviour can be one of the following:

SloppyFocus, FocusFollowsMouse (default), ClickToFocus

Comment on SloppyFocus:

The window that has the focus, keeps it when the mouse pointer is in the background (Root-Window), until another window gets the focus. SloppyFocus is only a good idea in connection with FocusFollowsMouse.

Colour palette

With the statement
Colormap FollowsMouse
or
Colormap FollowsFocus
the fvwm2 behaviour concerning the colour palette single applications can be fixed (e.g. arena, xv, xpaint, display, netscape).

Please read about this the manpage of fvwm2 and the single fvwm modules' manpages.

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Keywords: FVWM, FVWM2, FOCUS, WINDOW MANAGER

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