Re: [RP] rpwspl behaviour

[Matthew Sackman]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:44:00PM -0400, Shawn Betts wrote:
> Matthew Sackman <address@hidden> writes:
> > Is it just me or do other people suffer from windows either leaking from
> > one group to another or windows vanishing completely? This tends to
> > happen when switching rapidly between workspaces whilst under heavy
> > load.
> 
> You can sequence commands like so:
> 
> ratpoison -c cmd1 -c cmd2 -c cmd3
> 
> it won't return til cmd3 finishes.

Mmm, that won't help though as the issue is a race between separate
instances of the frestore, select, gselect trio used to switch
workspaces.

> You might also want to create a lock file so the script blocks until
> the lock is released. I somehow thought there already was locking to
> address this or a very similar issue.

Yeah, I was under that impression too. But rpwspl is basically unuseable
for me because of windows disappearing so if there is locking in there
it's not solving the problem.

Matthew
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