On 28 Apr 2001 20:42:46 +0200, Florian v. Savigny wrote:
>
> I am trying to implement a function which causes a bunch of programs
> to start on different places of my 3x2 virtual screen
>
> As two of the applications don't listen to X geometry specifictions,
> which was what I first tried, I tried to let the window manager handle
> this with GotoPage or StartsOnPage:
>
>
> 1 AddToFunc MyFunction
> 2 + "I" GotoPage 2 1
> 3 + "I" Exec netscape /home/florian/texte/html/learn
> 4 + "I" Wait "Netscape: Directory listing of /home/florian/texte/html/learn"
> 5 + "I" GotoPage 1 1
> 6 .
> 7 .
>
> (line numbers for demonstration only of course)
>
>
> The problem with this is that Wait seems to wait forever: the rest of
> the function below line 4 is not executed. I am puzzled about what
> exactly Wait is expecting. The man page states that:
>
> It causes a function to pause until a new window name
> /name/ appears. /Fvwm/ remains fully functional during a
> wait.
>
> (slashes used to indicate printing in italics here).
You should always specify your fvwm version, different answers may apply
to different versions.
Well, it seems you use one of the old fvwm versions, in the current man
page only the first word is italic. :-)
Wait command only supports double quotes starting from fvwm-2.3.16, if you
use an older version remove double quotes (yes, it may look strange).
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Mon Apr 30 2001 - 11:24:38 BST