On 10 Jan 2003 21:11:47 -0600, Len Philpot wrote:
>
> It seems every time I ask something, it's soon obvious I overlooked it
> in the documentation, but here goes anyway...
>
> In a function, is there a way to have things wait until something is
> done? For example, I have an xpm background loaded by xpmroot, but it
> takes a few seconds to do so. In the meantime, the aterm I launch on the
> root window picks up the previous background and not the pixmap. I've
> tried the backgrounPixmap resource for aterm (hoping it would paint
> correctly even if the bitmap wasn't yet loaded on the root window), but
> no luck. So, it seems I'll have to manually launch the aterm after
> everything has settled down, unless there's a way to have the
> InitFunction wait until the xpmroot line is done before excuting
> subsequent lines. I've tried various combinations of placement, division
> of commands between the InitFuction and StartFunction, but no luck.
xpmroot is now renamed to fvwm-root, since it supports png and xbm too.
AddToFunc InitFunction
+ I PipeRead `fvwm-root $[FVWM_USERDIR]/images/mybackground.xpm`
+ I Exec exec aterm
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sat Jan 11 2003 - 00:30:53 GMT