I feel like https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/70 all over again. It's indeed not just Perl 6. Or C, for that matter.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:41 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 9/18/18 6:32 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > Have you looked at the documentation for nativecall? It has a tutorial > > example on how to access a c function from a standard library. > > > > I wrote that little bit. It should answer most of your questions. > > > > Richard > > Hi Richard, > > Yes I did read the documentation, but it was months ago. Have > you updated it? > > I sometimes will pick out a difficult problem > as an exercise to teach me how to use things. > Just dive in. > > So far I have got GetXDisplay to work. XGetWindowAttributes > seized up my computer and I had to press POR (power on reset). > So, I have erased what I did so I would not accidentally run > it again and seize up again. > > So I though I would try again, but on asking the "C" guys > what was going on with the call. They told me that X11 calls are > notoriously difficult to access, even from "C". So I am giving up > again. There will be other problems to torment me. And I > am liking GDM better than X11 anyway, so I should put my efforts > there instead. > > By the way, I noticed that the Xlib example for XGetWindowAttributes > left a ton of stuff off: > > $ x-windows-list.pl6 > 00 0xa044fe xfce4-panel - xfce4-panel > 01 0xa044fb xfce4-panel - xfce4-panel > 02 0xa03aab xfce4-panel - xfce4-panel > 03 0x3800106 firefox - Firefox > 04 0x3e000c6 thunderbird - Thunderbird > 05 0x600122 xfwm4 - xfwm4 > 06 0x600141 <> - <> > 07 0x600142 <> - <> > 08 0x600143 <> - <> > 09 0x600144 <> - <> > 10 0x6008a4 <> - <> > 11 0x6008f6 <> - <> > 12 0x6008cd <> - <> > 13 0x611e48 <> - <> > 14 0x611cb7 <> - <> > 15 0x600d68 <> - <> > 16 0x60b8af <> - <> > 17 0x6009b4 <> - <> > > So apparently, he had issues with the call too. > > Anyway, I will concentrate on GDM instead. And > need to stop procrastinating on my Federal Taxes. > > Thank you for the write back, > -T > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
