Re: [RP] trying to use THE RATPOISON better

[Trent Buck]

Up spake Kevin Geiss:
> xtoolwait spawns the client, waits until the client maps a window, then 
> exits. this has the effect of 'pausing' the execution of your .xinitrc 
> until that client pops up! very handy.

You missed the clever bit, which is to say

        ratpoison &
        WAITPID=$$
        
        # execute stuff *after* the WM has started
        
        wait $WAITPID

I've never seen this technique before.  Thanks.

> Unfortunately, I use a lot of dockapps which confuse xtoolwait since 
> they enter the 'withdrawn' state. so I can only use xtoolwait with 
> xterm, xload, and a few other of my clients. I wrote a script to 
> restore all my clients to their proper places too. hopefully there is 
> enough detail on my page. let me know if you have questions or if I 
> messed up a link.

What would be *really* cool would be the ability to pass something like
this to ratpoison:

; list of pairs of the form (predicate . destination-frame).
(((lambda (window)
    (equal? (window-class window) "firefox")) . 0)
 ((lambda (window) 
    (and (equal? (window-class window) "xmms")
         (equal? (window-instance window) "equalizer"))) . 1)
 ((lambda (window)
    (contains? "irssi" (window-title window))) . 2)
 (t . 3))

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-trent
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