Re: FVWM: placement of windows from another host ???

From: Albrecht Kadlec <albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 16:25:22 +0200

>>>>> Kai Grossjohann writes:

>>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:59:24 +0200, albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at
>>>>> (Albrecht Kadlec) said:

Albrecht> And I don't like the idea of mangling the class name: who
Albrecht> knows what is depending from that info.

K> You're not mangling the CLASS, you're mangling the NAME. By default,
K> X uses the name of the excutable as NAME. Thus, try cp xterm bla,
K> then call bla and you'll see that it's still got XTerm as class but
K> now bla as name.

ok, class, name, title these are the options for quick & dirty hacks.
As soon as StartsOnPage is working I was planning to do sth like this
anyway, BUT:

Albrecht> also it's a kind of pain to alias ALL X commands on one
Albrecht> host to have -name sth-else and then duplicate all style
Albrecht> commands in .fvwm2rc on order to add StartsOnPage.

K> You could use the same NAME for all of them so that you only have one
K> entry in .fvwm2rc.

Albrecht> I don't know what commands I'll start on that host, but I
Albrecht> want EACH to show up on my lowest left page, and netscapes
Albrecht> on the left but one page.

K> I admit that this is less than perfect.

Well I just wanted to put in my 2 Groschen, as the StartsOnPage style is
still to be implemented, and also before TGSFR.

So maybe it could be held in mind that someone might want to specify flags
upon WHERE the client connected from while hacking the style thingie.

That alone could change A LOT ;^)


It's some sort of having two -or many- different X Terminals connected to
different hosts, knowing that an emacs on "X terminal 1" is from host1, but
still being able to move windows from one 'X terminal' to the other, since
it's the same virtual desktop (for StartsOnPage) / X server (for
StartsOnDesk) on the machine in front of you.

most things can be made better with some hacking, but proper designing /
programming is far better in the long run.

I wouldn't have posted, if I thought I was the only one with X applications
from two hosts mixing....

(You always have to bear in mind, WHERE the application/ host ist, when
pressing the PRINT button.)

albrecht
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