Re: --replace ? Seems a wrapper script suffices.

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Teika Kazura <teika lavabit com> wrote:
> Hi, Andrea & sawfish people.
>
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:26:28 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
>
>> I was interested to add a command line "--replace" option to replace a
>> currently running WM, but I'm still in the documentation phase. Some
>> days ago I was looking how is done on Metacity. Seems it needs the
>> cooperation of the running WM, is it documented somewhere?.
>
> Isn't it sufficient to run WMs from a wrapper script? If it's powered
> by a gui with radio buttons to choose WM, then it'd be great.
>
> Wrapper example:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> NEXT_WM="$HOME/.next_wm"
> NEXT_WM_OPTION="$HOME/.next_wm_option"
>
> CMD=`cat $NEXT_WM` 2>/dev/null
>
> while [[ -x $CMD  ]]; then
>      OPT=`cat $NEXT_WM_OPTION` 2>/dev/null
>      rm -f $NEXT_WM $NEXT_WM_OPTION
>      $CMD $OPT
>      CMD=`cat $NEXT_WM` 2>/dev/null
> fi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looking around seems it's only Sawfish that lacks a "replace" option
(well IIRC FVWM and Metacity have it, didn't checked others  ^_^)...


-- 
Andrea