"Emilie Ann Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 1, 2008 4:49 PM, Attila Nemeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DestroyFunc HelperFnc > > AddToFunc HelperFnc > > + I ThisWindow Exec exec echo $[w.y]:$[w.x]:$[w.id] >>~/.fvwm/wlist.txt > > > > DestroyFunc WSelect > > AddToFunc WSelect > > + I Exec exec rm -f ~/.fvwm/wlist.txt ; touch ~/.fvwm/wlist.txt > > + I All (!Iconic, CurrentPage, AcceptsFocus) HelperFnc > > + I PipeRead "~/.fvwm/SelectWindow.sh" > > > > Now, all this is not relaible. Most of the time it works, but somtimes > > the wlist.txt file ends up empty or missing some windows. Like if the > > PipeRead kicked in too early. Is it possible that the lines in an fvwm > > function (WSelect in this case) are NOT executed sequentially? > > If you look at the documentation for Exec > (http://fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/unstable/fvwm.php#lbBW) it > specifies that Exec doesn't wait for the command to complete. So what > is probably happening is that you are starting to run SelectWindow.sh > before you finish writing to wlist.txt
Right, and one solution is to use Piperead instead of Exec. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
