Re: execf not working

Kelly Collier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

Thanks to both of you for your replies. Guess I'll look for a different
solution to my problem than execf. (I'm trying to find a means to open
an application in a frame that isn't selected.)

Cheers,

Kelly


Ingo Krabbe wrote on 01/06/2012 06:51 AM:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 01:37:54AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 01:30:38AM +0100, Kelly Collier wrote:
>>     
>>> I've got my screen split into two frames, 0 and 1. Say I have an xterm
>>> in frame 0. In that xterm, I type
>>>
>>> ratpoison -c "execf 1 xterm"
>>>
>>> Things run as planned: A new xterm is opened in frame 1. However, if I
>>> try with a heavier-duty program, say, chromium...
>>>
>>> ratpoison -c "execf 1 chromium-browser"
>>>
>>> ... chromium opens in the current frame, frame 0.
>>>       
>
> I never found any application that obeys execf's frame, though I never
> use any old Xt or similar programs anyway.
>
> So, I think Chromium is not the exception, but xterm.
>
>   
>> Chromium is special as the thing we regards as one window (with
>> strange, application specific titlebar) is in reality one window per
>> tab AFAIK, just handled to look like one window by the application
>> itself. Maybe this confuses ratpoison?
>>
>> OTOH I used Chromium with ratpoison once or twice, too, and didn't
>> notice any strange issues. But I don't use ratpoison's execf either.
>>
>> 		Kind regards, Axel
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