Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: Hello all! I've been using 2.4.20 (under Slackware 13.0) and grown attached to the following functions, which depend on the old Unix program xcuckoo: If, from my limited googling, this application just updates the window title periodically, it's probably

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Kalb
ta == Thomas Adam thomas.ada...@gmail.com writes: ta 2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: I've been using 2.4.20 (under Slackware 13.0) and grown attached to the following functions, which depend on the old Unix program xcuckoo: ta If, from my limited googling, this

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Viktor Griph
2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: I just tried upgrading to 2.5.28 and both stopped working. [...] So I assume that there's some generally-used window manager modernization that breaks xcuckoo and probably nothing can be done about it short of modifying xcuckoo (not something I'm

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Viktor Griph
2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: Don't know if that rings any bells. If not, I'll look at wmctrl. A quick google suggests it might be used in a script that can do the same thing, although scripting isn't my long suit. You can probably do it with Fvwm's Schedule command with the Periodic

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:25:38PM +0100, Viktor Griph wrote: 2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: I just tried upgrading to 2.5.28 and both stopped working. [...] So I assume that there's some generally-used window manager modernization that breaks xcuckoo and probably nothing can be

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Viktor Griph
2010/1/8 Thomas Adam thomas.ada...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:25:38PM +0100, Viktor Griph wrote: 2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: I just tried upgrading to 2.5.28 and both stopped working. [...] So I assume that there's some generally-used window manager modernization

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Kalb
vg == Viktor Griph vik...@griph.se writes: vg 2010/1/8 Jim Kalb jimk...@gmail.com: So I assume that there's some generally-used window manager modernization that breaks xcuckoo and probably nothing can be done about it short of modifying xcuckoo (not something I'm

Re: FVWM: 2.4 = 2.5 upgrade breaks xcuckoo

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Kalb
vg == Viktor Griph vik...@griph.se writes: vg You can probably do it with Fvwm's Schedule command with vg the Periodic option together with wmctrl. It worked! The new function definitions under 2.5.28 are: DestroyFunc SpiffyTerm AddToFunc SpiffyTerm + I Exec terminal + I Schedule