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SUPPLEMENT: xtoolwait documentation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jan 13 17:32:40 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:36:15 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Richard Huveneers <richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl>
Subject: SUPPLEMENT: xtoolwait documentation
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Hello all,
Let me start with giving the LSM entry of xtoolwait, for those who are
not familiar with it:
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Title: xtoolwait
Version: 0.3
Entered-date: 01DEC95
Description: Xtoolwait notably decreases the startup time of your X
sessions, provided that you start a number of X clients
automatically during the X session startup.
Xtoolwait starts one X client in the background,
waits until it has mapped a window and then exits.
Keywords: start client wait toolwait
Author: richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl (Richard Huveneers)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xutils
17kB xtoolwait-0.3.tar.gz
Alternate-site: http://www.hacom.nl /~richard/software
Original-site:
Platforms:
Copying-policy: GPL
End
Since the release of xtoolwait 0.2, I have received quite a number of
reports that xtoolwait does not detect window mappings anymore,
producing a time-out warning message instead.
If you have experienced this problem, or are planning to install xtoolwait,
you should definitely read on.
The cause of this problem is a change in the way xtoolwait detects
window mappings, which I did not document well enough.
When I implemented the change, I assumed (oh stupid me) that everybody
launches the window manager before any other X clients.
As it turned out, this is not true for all of us.
In other words: if you are experiencing this problem, you will need to
make a minor adjustment to your (system-wide or personal) .xinitrc file,
so that the window manager is launched before xtoolwait is used.
Since most people start their window manager before any other X clients,
I am pretty sure this change will not cause any other problems, even more
since the first instance of xtoolwait will wait until both the window
manager and the X client have finished their initialization.
As an example, here is the relevant part of my own .xinitrc file,
showing the proper use of xtoolwait:
#
# Startup the window manager first
#
olvwm & wmpid=$!
#
# Restore desktop settings
# Reminder: do _not_ put xtoolwait in the background
#
xtoolwait contool -Wp 30 30 -Ws 575 246 -WP 3 533 -Wi
xtoolwait xeyes -geom 77x60+640+107
xtoolwait ansi_xterm -geom 80x24+22+11
xtoolwait clock -Wp 90 90 -Ws 150 150 -WP 733 110 -Wi
#
# Wait for the window manager
#
wait $wmpid
I'm really sorry for failing to document this,
Richard Huveneers.
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