[clfswm-devel] new window hooks and others

[Fernando Aguayo]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:00:27PM +0200, Philippe Brochard wrote:
> Fernando Aguayo writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> >> > Other problem I'm having is regarding the info-mode. If I try
> >> > something like
> >> > (info-mode '("hello" "world!"))
> >> > clfswm will crash complaining about an unhandled throw.
> >> > Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?
> >> >
> >> Well, you can't call directly a function which use the display in your
> >> configuration file since the display is not opened when the
> >> configuration file is loaded. This is to let us redefine all what we
> >> want before clfswm is really started.
> >> 
> >> For this, you can add an init-hook which is executed just before the
> >> main loop. Something like this:
> >> 
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> (defun my-show-hello-world ()
> >>   (info-mode '("Hello" "World!")))
> >> 
> >> (add-hook *init-hook* 'my-show-hello-world)
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> >> 
> > Probably that is not the problem, since I was doing it in a function
> > bounded to a key, not directly in the configuration file. Have any
> > other ideas?
> >
> Ah, ok. Where do you put your code and how do you assign your key ?
> I'd like to be able to reproduce the bug.

Oops, my bad. After all you was right. In a keybinding it works fine,
the problem was I was invoking it through slime. Sorry about that.

> 
> >> 
> >> > Btw, the keybindings are working fine now, but lamentably I don't know
> >> > anything about how xlib works, so I'am afraid I am of very little help
> >> > in the flickering problem.
> >> >
> >> No problem with the xlib. I'd just like to know if the flickering
> >> problem is really annoying for you or if you can live with it. 
> >> BTW I think I know how to prevent it (reparent windows), but I'll
> >> make this change after the next release (coming soon).
> >> 
> > Althoug I can live with it, I rather not have it :P
> >
> Indeed :)
> 
> > So if you could fix it would be great.
> >
> Yes, I'll do my best.
> 
> > I'm glad to know a next release is coming. Do you think you could add
> > the width of the frame and windows borders as a parameter? I find it difficult to
> > know where I am when I have a maximized window inside a frame.
> >
> Actually the border size is hardcoded to 1 pixel. It's not to much
> efforts to make it variable. I put this on the TODO list for the next
> release.
Great! that will allow me to keep my configs separated from the
source :)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Philippe
> 
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Regards
Fernando