Howdy Harold,
At 07:31 PM 8/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Can't remember if I replied to this yet. I am in the process of
getting my Inspiron 8500 returned after having it replaced (bought it
3 weeks ago). Both the original and the replacement randomly freeze.
Google for ["Inspiron 8500" freeze] and you'll see exactly what I
mean. I have been setting up computers for the past two weeks now.
I have finally ordered a Gateway 450X notebook. Hopefully that will
work better and allow me to spend a little more time looking at patches.
Good luck, on the bright side since it went south so fast you didn't
lose too much data on the drives.
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...
---
// Below are just some silly menus to demonstrate writing your
// own configuration file.
// Make some menus...
menu importantapps {
xsol exec "xsol -display 127.0.0.1:0.0"
xv exec "xv -display 127.0.0.1:0.0"
}
menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
xterm exec "xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0"
notepad exec notepad
xload exec "xload -display 127.0.0.1:0.0" # Comment
separator
"Good Apps" menu importantapps
SEParATOR
}
menu aot {
Separator
"Always on Top" alwaysontop
}
menu xtermspecial {
"Emacs" exec "emacs" # test
"Always on Top" alwaysontop
SepArAtor
}
RootMenu root
DefaultSysMenu aot atend
SysMenu {
"xterm" xtermspecial atstart
}
IconDirectory "c:\winnt\"
DefaultIcon "reinstall.ico"
Icons {
"xterm" "uninstall.ico"
}
DEBUG "Done parsing the configuration file..."
---
-Earle F. Philhower, III
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