Ignored Windows

Sawfish has a general concept of "ignored" windows; the user does not interact normally with those windows. The concept is actually defined by five different window properties:

ignored

The window does not receive frames.

never-focus

The window never receives the input focus.

cycle-skip

The window is ignored while window cycling.

window-list-skip

The window will not be included in the window list.

task-list-skip

The window will not be included in the task list.

A monitor application such as "xload" might have all five of these flags set.

Rather than directly manipulating the window properties, it is better to use the following access functions:

window-ignored-p window

Function

Returns true if the window has the ignored property, false otherwise.

make-window-ignored window

Command

Ignore the window window.

make-window-not-ignored window

Command

Unignore the window window.

toggle-window-ignored window

Command

If window-ignored-p would return true for window, make it unignored. Otherwise make it ignored.

The remaining flags only have toggle functions implemented right now:

toggle-window-never-focus window	Command
toggle-window-cycle-skip window	Command
toggle-window-list-skip window	Command
toggle-task-list-skip window	Command

Toggle the appropriate flag on window.

All five of the flags are available through the window menu's "Toggle" entry.