Hi Rusty, : The problem I get is that I'd like to use Tavis Ormandy's excellent : thumbnail creation code. This takes two seconds to run on my machine, : so my thought was to do it in the background - actually, to do it behind : the other Window.
I'm not sure I have the ideal solution for you, however: The thumbnailing operation can be split into 2 parts: 1. immediate actions 2. deferred actions Immediate actions would be stuff like raising the window, grabbing a screenshot & then iconifying the window. The deferred stuff (which takes most of the processing time) encompasses: recording the current icon image, creating the thumbnailed icon image, setting the icon image to the new thumbnail. All the deferred stuff can be done in a script & Exec'ed. Communication with FVWM (in the script) would be trivial with FvwmCommand. Once FVWM does the Exec it's no longer waiting (for PipeReads) & hopefully it will all appear much more responsive. SCoTT. :) -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
