Comment 6 for bug 3611

Tags: patch

Here's my suggested change to the wmaker-0.80.1 FAQ in support of the
single_click patch; feel free to revise it in any way you want.

--- FAQ.orig Wed Oct 3 18:53:18 2001
+++ FAQ Mon Nov 11 14:01:51 2002
@@ -1074,16 +1074,29 @@
 4.16 How can I set dock/clip to use single click to launch
      applications, instead of double click?
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-You cannot do this. This is because single click is used to select app-icons,
-or to raise/lower the app-icon or the dock/clip.
-If this is impelmented then you will be unable to select or raise/lower
-dock/clip or app-icons, without also launching the application it represents.
+This question was officially answered as follows:

-So don't ask for this to be implemented, because it will not be. Double
-click is used for a reason, is not just some weird idea we got in a morning
-when we wake up too early.
+ You cannot do this. This is because single click is used to select
+ app-icons, or to raise/lower the app-icon or the dock/clip. If
+ this is impelmented then you will be unable to select or
+ raise/lower dock/clip or app-icons, without also launching the
+ application it represents.

+ So don't ask for this to be implemented, because it will not
+ be. Double click is used for a reason, is not just some weird idea
+ we got in a morning when we wake up too early.

+Regardless of that, there is now an option in WPrefs, under "Expert
+User Preferences," which allows you to set "Launch applications and
+restore windows with a single click." (See the files contrib/README
+and contrib/single_click.diff in the source package for details.)
+
+If you set that option, a left button single click will launch or
+restore, rather than select, the app-icon. You can use other methods
+(or temporarily turn the option off again) to select app-icons or
+raise/lower the dock/clip. You can toggle the selected state of any
+app-icon via its right button menu, and there are auto-raise and
+keep-on-top options for the dock and clip.

 4.18 How do I restore the configuration app to the dock?