> In-Reply-To: Message from Rick Teudt <rteudt_at_raf.com>
> of "Mon, 01 May 2000 18:13:06 PDT." <0156D884D32BD1118BE9006008275EDC7E9196_at_eve.internal.raf.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 08:05:55 -0500
> From: Mike Bloy <bloy_at_cs.wisc.edu>
> On Mon, 1 May 2000 18:13:06 -0700 , Rick Teudt <rteudt_at_raf.com> said:
>
> > I am new to the world of fvwm, so I hope there is an easy solution
> > for this problem that I just haven't figured out yet: I would like
> > to start an application in InitFunction, and have fvwm automatically
> > quit when that application is exited or killed.
>
> What you probably want to do is go outside of FVWM for this. If you
> start up FVWM in your .xsession (or whatever) with
>
> fvwm2 &
>
> processing continues in the .xsession. Then you start up your window
> with a line like this
>
> exec logout_app -option -option
>
> That makes logout_app the controlling process for the X session, which
> sounds like what you want.
I think you could do it within fvwm2 though. Say your app was called
MyMainThing, then why not try:
AddToFunc InvokeMyMainThing
+ "I" PipeRead MyMainThing
+ "I" Quit
AddToFunc InitFunction
+ "I" InvokeMyMainThing
I *guess* this will work...
Ta, John
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Received on Tue May 02 2000 - 09:51:56 BST