I use wmswallow and aterm together to get a little terminal in the slit. here's
the lines from my .xinitrc:

aterm -sh 60 -tr -ls -fn 6x10 -g 10x6 -cr green -fg green +sb -name dockterm&
/usr/local/bin/wmswallow -focus -geom 64x64 dockterm&

used to work great, but at least in alpha4 and alpha6, the wmswallow
thinks it has swallowed aterm, but the aterm is still floating around as
a regular window, with decorations and all. there is a white square in
the slit where the aterm should be. if i change to another workspace and
put the mouse in the white square, wmswallow crashes with this message:

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  42 (X_SetInputFocus)
  Serial number of failed request:  310
  Current serial number in output stream:  310

I tried alpha6 since there was some slit tweaking, but it didn't fix it.

in alpha6 i got a new problem: bbmail shows up on the opposite side of
the screen from my slit! it shows up on all desktops, just away from the
slit. if i bring up the bbmail menu by right-clicking on the envelope,
the menu pops up where you would expect it to be if bbmail was actually
in the slit.

i run bbmail like this:
ssh ocotillo /usr/local/bin/bbmail -w
(my mail comes in on ocotillo and i display it remotely on my workstation)

let me know if you need more details

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:12:25PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> To fix the simple coding error in alpha5 I have released alpha6.
> 
> The only difference is a change to the way a container is accessed so if you
> have alpha5 and it compiles don't sweat it.

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