Re: [RP] tmpwm command

[Shawn Betts]

Florian Cramer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Montag, 24. Februar 2003 um 07:49:15 Uhr (-0600) schrieb Jay Belanger:
> > 
> > Shawn Betts <address@hidden> writes:
> > ...
> > > I just wrote a new command: tmpwm. It spawns a wm and gives it
> > > control. When the wm terminates, ratpoison takes control again. 
> > ...
> > 
> > This is kinda neat, although I don't imagine myself using it very
> > often; who wants to leave the safe confines of ratpoison?
> 
> It's very neat if you sometimes need devilish anti-ratpoison stuff like
> the Gimp. I currently use selectwm so that I can switch window managers
> on the fly, and I am glad that I now can ditch this 584k memory eating
> background process.
> 
> This is also an elegant way of offloading compatibility bloat (like the
> "non-tiling subdesktop" in the larswm window manager) from ratpoison.

Hi Florian,

Yep. It seems like a good thing. But don't switch tooooo fast. It's
pretty darn buggy at the moment...

Shawn