other problems with swallowed apps and E

[Remo Strotkamp <remo_s regiolife ch>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> Enlightenment is particularly fond of the windows it manages, and does not
> react well when you reparent one of its windows.  If you try just about
> any other window manager, swallowing will work as expected.
>
> James.
>
> --
> Email: james@daa.com.au
> WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/
>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Andreas Buesching wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I`m a newbie to Gnome. Some weeks ago I started using Gnome and
> > Enlightenment (before I have used KDE). Everything works fine since I
> > using the sources from cvs (new gnome-core). Just one thing does not
> > work. I tried to swallow 2 different mp3-player and a lot of other
> > applications no one of this Application did it. For example I tried to
> > swallow gqmpeg into the panel but the effect was a normal gqmpeg
> > somewhere on the desktop and a little window on the panel. Sometimes
> > (if I press the wrong button) the panel dies.
> >
> > Does Anyone know how it should work with the swallowed apps? Or does
> > anyone know an App that works??
> >
> > THANX FOR READING
> >
> > crunchy

Hi,

I am waiting for swallowed apps working in E too. Really looks like
this seems to be a E specific problem.

Nevertheless, I am still using it!

But things are improving believe me. When I tried a half a year
ago, my panel always crashed on me!

I actually managed to get some wm dockapplets to be swallowed.
(jees, was I happy then :-)  )

That is how I got it to work:

-first start manually ( xterm) a wmdock ( wmmon)
-Then add swallowed app to it with title wmmon
  and size 64x64 ( size does not really matter :-) )
  --> For me the panel added one of the empty boxes you mentioned
          and the wmmon changed a little his shape!
- Remove the added empty box from the panel ( right click on it, menu)
  -->   The empty box disappeared as well as the wmmon itself
    ( though it was still running )

- Readd a swallowed app to the panel with the same settings as before
   ---> Now the wmmon appears inside the panel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



A bit complicated I know, but there is a even bigger drawback:

  If you leave gnome and restart it it will produce tons of errors and
  finally hang on me! Even when I started the wmdock apps manually
  in the .xinitrc file, bfore starting gnome-session!!!!!!!!!!

If somebody has a glue how I get gnome to restart with my wmdocks
swallowed this would be extremly cool!


Or just never stop your gnome session and you dont have a problem!!!!
But I am on a laptop, and that is not really a solution!
Though I could hybernate all the time instead of shutdown!!!!!
Jeeeeeeeeessssssss, this could actually work.... :-)



by the way, I am using a CVS E16devel snapshot from probably a month ago
and more or less the latest tarballs of gnome!!!!!!!!!!


remo