Re: [RP] ratpoison on CDE

[shawn]

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>Date: Thu,  4 Jan 2001 15:16:34 -0800 (PST)
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>Hi all,
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>I'd sent mail yesterday about a problem I was having running ratpoison 
>under CDE.  It appears that for some reason the SIGALRM's that
>ratpoison uses to close the window list was causing the ratpoison proc 
>to die.  The code tries to install some handlers for SIGALRM, so I'm
>not sure what is going on here.  I wrote a script to swallow SIGALRM
>and SIGHUP before running ratpoison.  So I have to deal with a window
>list that never closes, but I don't care.  I may be able to look into
>this more later, but maybe not.  Anyway, thanks.

This SIGALRM problem has also sprung up for other people. It seems
like a somewhat flaky way to do it anyway. This is code from the good
ol' "If I could just get this last feature in, no matter how I do
it...". If anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it!

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Shawn