On 23-May-2002 Kevin Geiss wrote: > 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 >
damn, i had fixed this app before ..... > 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. > yep, known problem, even in the TODO (-: The slit seems to accept the bbtool and then spit it out.
