> Thats it. Would be most obliged if you could work that in somehow .. > Having apps open where you issue the command not where you actually > *are* when it finally decides to open. >
this is really, really, really not easy. otherwise I would have done it long ago (-: as a rehash, the issue is this: the menu code calls fork()->exec() to start a new application. At this point blackbox goes off and does its own thing. moments later an event "MapRequest" occurs. This is the new application trying to display itself. There is *zero* connection between this event occuring and the earlier menu request. Blackbox has no way of knowing this application was actually started by it. You see there is no mapping between X Windows and their pids. So while we are in name the parent we do not know this window is "ours". It might as well have been started from a term, the console or even remotely from another machine. It is this transparency that is there to bite us in the ass. The *BEST* thing we could do would be to store the string we exec() 'mozilla http://www.pornpornporn.com' and when the window launches we could check if the command stored in WM_COMMAND matched any of the commands in our wait queue. Which means we also have to support apps that never actually load, apps like 'rxvt' which there are a billion of at once, etc. It just gets messy. Any of you out there have a way to do this please let me know. I have not found a clean solution yet.
