On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:02:10PM +0200, Uwe Pross wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> recently I saw a demonstration of plan 9 where the
> presenter clicked on the root window and dragged a
> rectangle to start a terminal with position and size of the
> drag gesture. I think this is a really nice way to start
> and place xterms or other apps.
>
> I am thinking of writing a fvwm function to achieve this
> and stuck currently at following points.
> - A grid should be drawn while dragging.
> - Xterm (or another app) should be started on key release.
>
> Any suggestions how to achieve the desired behaviour?
>
Wow, that's a really cool idea!
The fist part is no problem, it's easy to start an xterm when drawing a
rectangle and identifying the pointer position when you started, but I'm
not sure how you could find the length and width of the rectangle.
Something like this should start an xterm at the stroke start position when
you draw a rectangle on the root window:
AddToFunc StrokeFuncWrapper
+ I SetEnv StrokeStart +$[pointer.x]+$[pointer.y]
+ I StrokeFunc DrawMotion FeedBack StrokeWidth 2 EchoSequence
AddToFunc StartStrokeXterm I Exec exec xterm -g $[StrokeStart]
Mouse 3 R A StrokeFuncWrapper
Stroke N741236987 0 R N StartStrokeXterm
I can't think of anyway to identify the geometry of the drawn rectangle,
my first thought was to capture the output of EchoSequence, but
unfortunately that isn't much use.
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Received on Thu Mar 31 2005 - 07:50:11 BST