Re: [RP] neat trick

[Shawn Betts]

Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -0400, Caleb Shay wrote:
> >While I'm posting, I'd like to throw in a feature request, and it SHOULD
> >be a really easy one to implement.  I want a "sleep N" command which
> > just keeps ratpoison from executing any commands for N seconds.
> > Why? Because, as you can see, I use a fairly complex frame layout
> > with a few
> >programs that are slow to launch, if I just put the various exec
> >commands + splits + vsplits into my .ratpoisonrc, my applications end up
> >in a different frame every time I start since depending on how long it
> >takes the window to map, a different frame may have focus.
> 
> No, that is the wrong approach.  Ryan and I are working with the X
> standards organization and Xfree86 implementors to find a mechanism that
> will let you, and us, do this 100% correctly.  Using arbitrary delays is
> an unreliable hack.

I installed KDE for my brother the other day. I found that on many
apps KDE indicates that it's waiting for the app to start by showing
an hour glass. The moment the window opens, the hour glass goes
away. If we could figure out how this is done, I think this would help
us to solve the above problems.

Shawn