Re: [STUMP] Colon command to start up programming environment

[Lionel Flandrin]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Johan Andersson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just got Stumpwm working, and so far I love it! =) Thanks for this great
> software!
> 
> I like to do scripts in both Emacs and Bash to automate stuff I do a lot. So
> I thought Stumpwm would help me with a couple of stuff to.
> 
> I want to start a programming environment by running a (colon) command. So I
> tried something like this:
> 
> (define-stumpwm-command "programming"()
>   (gnew "programming")
>   (run-shell-command "emacs")
>   (run-shell-command "firefox")
>   (run-shell-command "urxvt")
>   (run-shell-command "urxvt")
>   (hsplit)
>   (fnext)
>   (vsplit)
>   (vsplit)
>   )
> 
> But it won't work. And I guess that is because the Lisp command
> run-shell-command only sends a signal to the shell and then goes on to the
> next command. And because of that the programs have not yet had time to
> start up. And because of that all goes wrong.
> 
> How can I solve this?
> 
> Thanks!

You're looking for placement rules:

http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/manual/stumpwm_4.html#SEC19

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Lionel Flandrin