Re: GGI extreme blues : NEED HELP

2000-01-31 Thread Andrew Apted
Cesar Crusius writes: Well people, here's the situation: * I have a gnuplot driver that works in X but fails when in console mode. * I hacked dvgt, so that now *I CAN SEE DVI FILES WITH GGI*. It works in X, but then again, IT DOESN'T WORK IN THE CONSOLE!!! And that, of course,

Re: Windowmanager protocols

2000-01-31 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
Well, first of all, let me say that the ideas of Andreas concernin libwmh, and a X-style window manager seems perfectly acceptable to me. Marcus Sundberg wrote: To me it sounds like what you really want is a window system running directly on top of LibGGI, which really would be nice to have.

Re: GGI extreme blues : NEED HELP

2000-01-31 Thread James A Simmons
UNIX has some ancient thing called "job control". Programs started as _background_ processes (e.g. from a main program) are denied access to the TTY (i.e. the VT), they can't write to it or get input. I suppose the idea was, programs could be spawned and they shouldn't mess up the main

I can DVIew

2000-01-31 Thread Cesar Crusius
Ok folks, I have a dvi viewer for GGI. I renamed it 'dview'. It segfaults for every command-line option, but 'dview file.dvi' works great. Commands are pgup/down arrows q (quit) #g (goto page) +/- (zoom) Can anybody get the sources and put it in some stable place (aka ggi site)? I declare that