Re: Console button

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt> writes:
> I use the following code to raise/lower the xterm from 
> where I launch my app. When the user presses a button 
> the parent xterm comes up, so the user can see stdout
> messages and so, when she/he presses the button again the
> xterm goes down.
>
> This works great in Linux RH5.2 but in RH 6.0 with Gnome
> apparently I am not so lucky. 

Have you figured out what goes wrong?

> Anyway this WINDOWID variable
> seems a poor, unsafe, way of getting the information I want.
>
> What is the clean, solid, way of achieving this? In particular,
> how to get the Window identification of the parent xterm, used
> to launch the app and to write stdout? Xlib solutions are welcome.

WINDOWID seems like the only way you could even think about doing it.
It's basically a big hack, there is no clean way to do big hacks.

Havoc