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Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)


Earle F. Philhower III wrote:

Howdy Harold,
At 07:31 PM 8/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:

In other words, I might look at your patch tomorrow, or I might look at it next week. Can't say for sure.
In any case, thanks for the patch, I like the idea and am looking forward to seeing what it does.


No rush. But just delete the tar file I sent yesterday, that was really just
a parser that read the config file. It took a few hours of futzing around today,
but I got it nicely integrated into the server. Now on init it parses ~/.XWinrc
or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc and makes custom menus and submenus for
the taskbar icon and each window, and can replace icons with ones specified
in the rc file.


I'm attaching the diffs against test95 below, please use these for any testing
you do (there are several new files, so if patch asks: you do want to make new
files...). The file _usr_X11R6_lib_X11_system.XWinrc has all the documentation
on the RC format anyone'd need. If the file's not found, you get the exact
same behaviour as test95 as far as menus/icons/etc.


** There's also a off-by-one bugfix in winmultiwindowclass.c, so no matter
what that file's changes should go in... **


Oh yeah, a simple "if (fork()==0) { execl(); exit(0); }" seems to spawn X and
Windoze apps fine. I know there was some discussion about this earlier...


Below's the sample config that I'm running that replaces the X.ico with one that's
floating in my Windows directory, and replaces Xterm's with another, and adds
custom menus to Xterm, all other windows, and the toolbar window...

Wow! This is great! Just what we were discussing earlier...
Just one comment: Is it not possible to automatically set the DISPLAY variable from X so that it automatically starts the xterms etc in the right X display, rather than having to pass a commandline parameter? (In fact, if they inherited the environment, this might happen anyway, but I don't know if X defines DISPLAY inside itself...)


David



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