Re: Making scripts with sawfish-client

["Eric Mangold" <teratorn world-net net>]

You'll want to consult the API documentation.

http://home.blarg.net/~sand/sawfish/

And the man page for sawfish-client should explain how to run Lisp inside  
sawfish.

Feel free to come back with specific questions regarding sawfish, the API  
docs, etc.

-Eric

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:22:11 +1000, Damien Clauzel <dclauzel aup fr> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> In our research project, we need to pilot the window manager remotely  in
> order to add some interactivity and to validate a some hypotheses  
> (Wizard of
> Oz method).
>
> So we have several bash scripts and c/++ daemons managing contents and
> events, and we would like to go further. For that, we would like to have  
> a
> couple of more system scripts, but I am not sure exactly how to do them.
>
> One script (let's call it � create_workspace �) is for creating a named
> workspace in the last position of the workspace list. Its use would be
> something like this:
>
> ___
> $ wmctrl -d
> 0  * DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Write an email to uncle  
> Joe
> 1  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Document summary
> 2  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Web search
>
> $ create_workspace "Divers"
>
> $ wmctrl -d
> 0  * DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Write an email to uncle  
> Joe
> 1  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Document summary
> 2  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Web search
> 3  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Divers
> ___
>
>
> Also, we would need another script (named here � delete_workspace � ) for
> deleting a precise workspace: this one is more tricky. We want to be  
> able to
> delete a specific workspace (nor necessarily the last one) and update the
> workspace list in order to not have any � hole � in it.
>
> It could be something like this:
>
> ___
> $ wmctrl -d
> 0  * DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Write an email to uncle  
> Joe
> 1  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Document summary
> 2  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Web search
> 3  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Divers
>
> $ delete_workspace 1
>
> $ wmctrl -d
> 0  * DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Write an email to uncle  
> Joe
> 1  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Web search
> 2  - DG: 1344x1024  VP: 0,0  WA: 0,0 1216x1024  Divers
> ___
>
>
> We are having a look at sawfish-client, as it seems to be the best way of
> doing this, but I cannot find any useful examples on how using it for  
> doing
> things like this.
>
> Can you help on those scripts, please ?
>
> Regards,
> 	Damien