On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > Esteemed comrades, > > I remember reading ages ago about how graphical programs launched > from Plan9's terminal thing (/editor/whatever) replace the window > it's in. I would really love a patch for st to do the same. So I > could type 'mupdf mything.pdf' and mupdf launches in the same window > as st was inhabiting, with st magically returning once mupdf exits. > > Does someone with more knowledge of X11 know whether this is likely > to be readily do-able? Can you launch an arbitrary X program and say > "use this window"? I'm guessing not, but don't really know. > > There are disadvantages to this approach, the main one being hiding > stdout & stderr. But I still think it could be interesting. > > Nick >
Hey Nick, Maybe something like Xembed would be useful. Alternatively, you could simulate it in a window manager by managing children processes maybe?...So rather a patch for st, it would be a patch for something like dwm. I don't know if that can be done easily in X/Linux/*BSD etc. I look forward to other ideas, Lee
