On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 14:28 -0500, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > If someone gets it working and wants to jazz it up a bit, there’s > other goodies out there. > > xlockmore - some versions (google for it) included the ability to > build with CDE support; I have an extended action file to invoke that > with the appropriate arguments, which adds some much cooler screen > savers. Some of them need 3D acceleration to not be dogs. > > Someone had done some audio utilities, that implemented the Sun > keyboard volume keys, and provided a nice front panel volume control. > The site doesn’t seem to be around anymore (and the relevant pages > don’t seem to be in archive.org), but I’ve got a copy (although so > far, I only found the extracted version, not the original archive > file). Note: all that is very specific to Sun keyboards and/or audio > interfaces; but if someone wanted to use it as a starting point for > similar functionality elsewhere, it might be easier than starting from > scratch. > > Older versions of the xpat2 multiple solitaire games program included > Motif support (which I think was ripped out at some point). > > Someone else had done a digital clock for the front panel; haven’t > tried to track that down yet. > > There are (or were) perl modules to interact with the calendar; they > could be used to automatically insert entries for holidays every year. > > While it wasn’t as pretty as the Sun CDE sdtwinlst, there was > something that would list windows; I think I helped get it working, > maybe I still have that somewhere. Yep, found a site that has it: > http://levana.de/findwindow/find_window.shtml > > I have one or two oddities myself, listed at > http://www.smart.net/~rlhamil/ (the bottom few entries). > The one I know some people other than me have used is dtwmcmd (sends > f. commands to dtwm from the command line). I made that because I > noticed that dtstyle could restart dtwm, but an action to > edit .Xdefaults (which was presumably a script calling dtpad) could > not. That made me curious enough to reverse-engineer the mechanism. > So now you can do from a shell script something like > dtwmcmd f.restart -noconfirm > > That pretty much covers the CDE/Motif related scrounges that I recall, > although I might have forgotten one or two. Someone might even want > to collect those and preserve them. :-)
I wrote a simple MIT-licensed command runner (for binding to Alt-F2) using Motif. It's at http://www.tomsick.net/projects/dtrun.html if anyone wants to use it. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
