* Jun 30 19:04 Johan Svedberg <winkle_at_acc.umu.se>:
> Hi, all!
>
> I've bumped into somewhat of a problem when I Swallow XConsole in my
> FvwmButtons. The problem lies in the fact that on some systems where I
> use this setup the display manager (XDM) has already started an XConsole. So
> when I use a this line:
>
> *FvwmButtons: (1x1-0+0, Padding 0 0, Swallow "XConsole" 'Exec exec xconsole -bg black -fg white -fn 5x7 -file /dev/console -verbose &')
>
> ...the XConsole doesn't even get swallowed. Now I know that I can use
> Swallow (UseOld) to make it swallow the existing XConsole, but then I
> have the problem that I can't customize XConsole the way I want.
>
> So I guess what I'm looking for is a way to get the running XConsole out
> of the way and swallow my own process, is there a clean way to do this?
Looking at the existing flags to Swallow, maybe KillOld would be an idea
to implement?
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Johan Svedberg, winkle_at_acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~winkle
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Received on Mon Jun 30 2003 - 12:13:39 BST