Re: [SPAM] [STUMP] Temporally replacing stumpwm with another window manager

[Simias]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> Shawn Betts <address@hidden> writes:
>> In the meantime you could setup a loop in your .xinitrc that cycles
>> through a few window managers and then back to stumpwm.
>
> But how would I replace stumpwm with let's say twm? When I killall sbcl
> it will shut down X completely.
>
> If I'm in twm and kill it, X won't shutdown and all windows will still
> be there. If stumpwm would behave the same, this looping construct would
> be trivial.

You can take a look to my previous email, i describe this:

,----
| while :
| do
|   /path/to/stumpwm.sbcl
|   twm
| done
`----

And this same email gave me the idea to make a more complex script:

http://stumpwm.elektrubadur.se/cgi-bin/wiki/StumpPatches

>> Of course, you lose all the groups and realtime hacks you may have
>> done to stumpwm.
>
> What does that mean to windows that belong to other groups that
> current-group? Do I lose them or will they appear all on one
> group/desktop?

You won't loose any window, they will just all be on the same first
group and fullscreen.

> Bye,
> Tassilo

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Simias