Re: Tutorial: how to control Sawfish from shell (script)

[Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson googlemail com>]

> How can Sawfish be controlled from shell, or shell script on the fly?
> Here comes sawfish-client.
>
> Suppose, in window cycling, you like to show window names, but
> you want to suppress it for a while.
>
> sawfish-1.6/OPTIONS say:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;;  (define-special-variable cycle-show-window-names t
> ;;    "Display window names and icons while cycling through windows.")
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ok, so this variable tells the behavior. Now call sawfish-client from
> the shell:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ sawfish-client
> sawfish 1.6.2, Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Harper
> sawfish comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file COPYING
>
> Enter `,help' to list commands.
> user> (setq cyc
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It's long name, but you can use completion by TAB; it says
> cycle-all-viewports      cycle-include-iconified  cycle-raise-windows
> cycle-all-workspaces     cycle-keymap             cycle-show-window-names
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> user> (setq cycle-show-window-names nil) ;; press enter
> ()  ;; it's the return value, the synonym for "nil", but you can forget it.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you press "C-d", or if your sawfish is >= 1.6, typing ",quit" brings
> you back to the shell.
>
> This was interactive, but you can push it into a shell script:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> sawfish-client -e "(setq cycle-show-window-names nil)"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Simple, eh?
>
> Unfortunately, not all is so simple. For example,
> (setq focus-mode 'click)
> does not work. In such cases, don't hesitate to ask at the mailing list.
> (Right now I don't know what to do with focus-mode. ;)
>
> Let me explain why. Have a look at sawfish-1.6/lisp/sawfish/wm/focus.jl:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (defcustom focus-mode 'click
>   "When does the mouse pointer affect the input focus."
>   :type symbol
>   :group focus
>   :before-set (lambda () (focus-mode-changed 'before))
>   :after-set (lambda () (focus-mode-changed 'after)))
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This defines the user option 'focus-mode'. If 'after-set' is there,
> then you have to tell Sawfish that you've changed the variable's
> value.

Thanks a lot Teika!

Cheers,
Daniel


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