On 10 Jan 2003 21:11:47 -0600, Len Philpot wrote: > > It seems every time I ask something, it's soon obvious I overlooked it > in the documentation, but here goes anyway... > > In a function, is there a way to have things wait until something is > done? For example, I have an xpm background loaded by xpmroot, but it > takes a few seconds to do so. In the meantime, the aterm I launch on the > root window picks up the previous background and not the pixmap. I've > tried the backgrounPixmap resource for aterm (hoping it would paint > correctly even if the bitmap wasn't yet loaded on the root window), but > no luck. So, it seems I'll have to manually launch the aterm after > everything has settled down, unless there's a way to have the > InitFunction wait until the xpmroot line is done before excuting > subsequent lines. I've tried various combinations of placement, division > of commands between the InitFuction and StartFunction, but no luck.
xpmroot is now renamed to fvwm-root, since it supports png and xbm too. AddToFunc InitFunction + I PipeRead `fvwm-root $[FVWM_USERDIR]/images/mybackground.xpm` + I Exec exec aterm Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
