--- Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brandin Creech wrote:
>
> >There are also two important patches that come with the WindowMaker
> >distribution, and these are not mentioned by the author of the hint:
>
> I went ahead and installed WindowMaker "naked," and it seems to be
> running fine. Another learning curve, however. When you speak of the
> patches "coming with the WindowMaker distribution," do you mean that
> they're in the un-tarred directory somewhere? If not, would you please
> supply a link to them?
Yes, there is a contrib/ directory in the toplevel source directory. It has a
file called single_click.diff which activates the "single click" preference
(it adds an option to the WPrefs "miscellaneous" menu (the one at the very
rightmost end of the icon bar under WPrefs) that is called "Launch
applications and restore windows with a single click" which I find very
helpful, because normally, a "single click" does nothing at all... so no
functionality is lost by enabling "single-click" (unlike in File Managers,
where single-click is used to select, and double-click normally is used to
"launch").
> Ever since you replied to another post of mine, I've been intrigued by
> the WindowMaker-ROX combination. Got the filer running and am learning
> WindowMaker. Just in the couple of hours I've been "playing," the combo
> is impressive. You were right.
Yes. Also try the "XDND" support with ROX which allows you to drag files to
applications--after running './configure', you need to uncomment the line in
src/wconfig.h which says '#define XDND', and you need to make a slight patch
to src/misc.c: the line that says 'dropped_thing = get_dnd_selection(scr);'--
comment that line out (the get_dnd_selection function was only used for the
Offix DND protocol, I gather--so it is not used with the XDND support that is
used now).
However, I've found some caveats to the DND-support; one is that it
intermittently works/doesn't work. For instance, when I first start wmaker,
the DND support usually does not work. Then, after a certain amount of time
using the machine, the support all of a sudden works, and then will continue
working until wmaker stops. I'm still trying to figure out what causes it.
Another caveat is that (at least with ROX), filenames with whitespaces or
special characters are not sent correctly or not interpreted correctly by
WindowMaker. For instance, the file object '/home/chaotic/LFS Patches' would
be sent as '/home/chaotic/LFS%20Patches', but when WindowMaker receives this,
it does not convert the '%20' back to a ' ' character. I'm not sure who is to
be blamed here, though (ROX or WindowMaker), but it is easy enough to solve
with a simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash
# Begin /usr/local/bin/Run
PROGRAM="$1"
shift
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
arg[i]="$(sed 's/%20/ /g;s/%5b/\[/g;s/%5d/\]/g;s/%25/%/g' <<<"$1")"
let i++
shift
done
exec "$PROGRAM" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
# End /usr/local/bin/Run
Then right-click your app icon and change the "Command for files dropped with
DND" from 'foo %d' to 'Run foo %d'.
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