From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 30 22:55:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA10985 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 22:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (uucp@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au [192.203.228.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10976 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 22:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (sendmail) with UUCP id RAA08780 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 17:55:09 +1100 (EST) Received: (from mark@localhost) by putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA00569; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 17:19:45 +1100 Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 17:19:45 +1100 From: Mark Hannon Message-Id: <199512310619.RAA00569@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cmdtool scrolling, owplace(1)... In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article , you wrote: >Thus spake James Raynard (Wed, 27 Dec 1995): >| > 2. Attempts to save workspace by adding >| > "Save Workspace" SAVE_WORKSPACE >| > >| > to the OpenWindows system menu/submenus results in a popup basically >| > stating that owplace(1) failed to execute. Assuming it's a binary, >| > naturally it's not around. What package/port is it part of? >| > >It was owplaces (I checked last night), and it's very similar to >xlsclients (Sun manpages again), but no nice clean "write the script and >put most of the apps in background mode". I can probably work around it. > I grabbed xtoolplaces and copied some scripts from a linux distribution to get the workspace to save. Unfortunately I don't remember where I picked up the source code. Archie should help. I use the following script to complete the picture: putte:~> cat /usr/X11R6/bin/owplaces #!/bin/sh if [ -e $HOME/.openwin-init ]; then cp $HOME/.openwin-init $HOME/.openwin-init.BAK fi xtoolplaces -m /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xtoolplaces.applications \ -f $HOME/.openwin-init.TMP /mark sed 's/-w/-geom/' $HOME/.openwin-init.TMP > $HOME/.openwin-init rm $HOME/.openwin-init.TMP -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+