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- From: ten0772@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Timothy E. Neto )
- Subject: Re: X client that just sits and waits?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.032847.12529@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: fsl
- References: <1992Dec9.104532.24382@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:28:47 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- From article <1992Dec9.104532.24382@fwi.uva.nl>, by wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)):
- > Hi,
- >
- > I am looking for a very simple (X) program: one that just waits forever
- > (until it gets killed). The reason for this is that I want to be able to
- > select a different window manager from within the current one, which is
- > impossible if 'mwm' is the last program invoked in my .xinitrc (Of course,
- > if such an 'xnop' or 'xwait' or whatever it may be called does not exist,
- > I can always use some other client as the last one, but then I could never
- > kill this one without killing X...)
- >
- > Marcel
- >
- > P.S. If anybody knows some other way of properly switch ing between 'twm'
- > and 'mwm' on both a Sun4 and an RS/6000, I'd be much obliged.
- >
- > --
- > X Marcel Wijkstra AIO (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
- > |X| Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- > X University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
- > ======Life stinks. Fortunately, I've got a cold.========
-
- Marcel,
-
- Try this in your transfer option for your menu.
- (I presume you are working in a UNIX environment.)
-
- f.exec switch_window_manager
-
- Where switch_window_manager is a script that kills
- the first window manage then using the Unix utility
- 'sleep' or the shell function 'eval' wait for the first
- window manager to die. Once the first window manager
- is dead, then use the shell function 'exec' to start
- the second window manager.
-
- Tim..... 10
-
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