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- From: leisner@wrc.xerox.com ( Marty Leisner)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: window manager/icon manager questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.203812.9674@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:38:12 GMT
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- Reply-To: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
- Organization: Xerox
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- I'm using vtwm (and like it a lot!)
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- I have a number of icon managers...can I construct a Icon-manager manager?
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- I can warp to the vtwm Icon manager, but I want to be able to find an arbirary icon manager...
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- Also is there a way to title the Icon Managers without Icon Manager in their title?
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- Here's some of the stuff I'm doing:
- NailedDown {
- "Virtual Desktop"
- "VTWM Icon Manager"
- "XTerm Icon Manager"
- "xless Icon Manager"
- "xman Icon Manager"
- "PostItNote Icon Manager"
- "xvi Icon Manager"
- "articles Icon Manager"
- "tin"
- "TWM Door"
- }
- IconManagers
- {
- "XTerm" "=300x5+800+5" 3
- "xless" "=300x5+600+3" 2
- "xvi" "=300x5-100+300" 2
- "xman" "=200x2-100+200" 2
- "articles" "=200x3-250+2" 1
- "Twm Door" "=100x3-200+200" 2
- "PostItNote" "=300x5-150+150" 2
- }
- AutoRaise {
- "XTerm Icon Manager"
- "xless Icon Manager"
- "VTWM Icon Manager"
- "Twm Door Icon Manager"
- "xvi Icon Manager"
- "xman Icon Manager"
- "articles Icon Manager"
- "PostItNote Icon Manager"
- "emacs"
- "Virtual Desktop"
- }
-
- and in my .bashrc file (I'm using bash)
- function xless {
- for i in $@
- do
- xterm -name xless -title $i -e less $i &
- done
- }
-
- function xman {
- xterm -name xman -title "$*" -e man $* &
- }
-
-
- function showarticles {
- xterm -title "$1@`hostname`" -name articles -e sh -c "scan -reverse +$*
- | less" &
- }
-
-
- function xpostit {
- /usr/marty/X11/bin/xpostit -name PostItNote &
- }
- function xvi {
- for i in $*
- do
- xterm -name xvi -title "$i" -e vi $i &
- done
- }
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- I'm not understanding the geometry specification for icon managers...
- in axb+c+d, what is b? (a, c and d make sense...) b should be a pixel height, but numbers
- like "5" don't make sense...
-
- --
- marty
- leisner.henr801c@xerox.com leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom
-