XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

[Harold L Hunt II]

Earle,

I have committed your patch to my local tree.  However, I wonder why all 
of the files are prefixed with "winmultiwindow".  Is the code purely 
intended only for multiwindow modes?  If so, that is fine.  It not, 
perhaps we should rebrand this before we start releasing it and 
committing it to CVS.

Other than that, everything looks great.  It builds fine and runs, but I 
haven't had a chance to play around with the prefs file yet (my paths 
are different than yours, etc.).

Thanks for contributing,

Harold

Earle F. Philhower III wrote:

> 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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