> How can Sawfish be controlled from shell, or shell script on the fly? > Here comes sawfish-client. > > Suppose, in window cycling, you like to show window names, but > you want to suppress it for a while. > > sawfish-1.6/OPTIONS say: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ;; (define-special-variable cycle-show-window-names t > ;; "Display window names and icons while cycling through windows.") > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Ok, so this variable tells the behavior. Now call sawfish-client from > the shell: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > $ sawfish-client > sawfish 1.6.2, Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Harper > sawfish comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file COPYING > > Enter `,help' to list commands. > user> (setq cyc > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > It's long name, but you can use completion by TAB; it says > cycle-all-viewports cycle-include-iconified cycle-raise-windows > cycle-all-workspaces cycle-keymap cycle-show-window-names > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > user> (setq cycle-show-window-names nil) ;; press enter > () ;; it's the return value, the synonym for "nil", but you can forget it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If you press "C-d", or if your sawfish is >= 1.6, typing ",quit" brings > you back to the shell. > > This was interactive, but you can push it into a shell script: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > #!/bin/sh > > sawfish-client -e "(setq cycle-show-window-names nil)" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Simple, eh? > > Unfortunately, not all is so simple. For example, > (setq focus-mode 'click) > does not work. In such cases, don't hesitate to ask at the mailing list. > (Right now I don't know what to do with focus-mode. ;) > > Let me explain why. Have a look at sawfish-1.6/lisp/sawfish/wm/focus.jl: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > (defcustom focus-mode 'click > "When does the mouse pointer affect the input focus." > :type symbol > :group focus > :before-set (lambda () (focus-mode-changed 'before)) > :after-set (lambda () (focus-mode-changed 'after))) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This defines the user option 'focus-mode'. If 'after-set' is there, > then you have to tell Sawfish that you've changed the variable's > value.
Thanks a lot Teika! Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown
