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From: dbrooks@osf.osf.org (David Brooks)
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Subject: Re: Is there a function call to restart mwm?
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Date: 24 Aug 90 03:21:26 GMT
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In article <9008152139.AA11945@unislc.UUCP> slt@unislc.UUCP (Stuart Timm) writes:
>
>One of our software engineers is working on developing a motif-based
>client that will allow a user to alter his/her resources.  Some of
>these resources are Mwm resources and can only take effect by restarting
>the window manager.  
>
>He was wondering if there is a function call to do this.  We still want
>to be able to restart Mwm manually by selecting the f.restart option from
>the default root menu.

We thought of two ways to call this (sorry, Stuart, you already heard
this; nothing new).

Gross hack: it's quite easy to write a shell line that will kill the
current mwm and start another incarnation, and bang it out using
system(3).  That's no more overhead than an f.restart.  It does depend
on your being permitted to do the kill.

Neato X idea: I thought of setting up mwm with something obscure, such
as Ctrl<Btn5Down>, bound to f.restart.  Then you use XSendEvent to
send the event to the root window.  But, so far, I couldn't get it to
work -- mwm isn't getting the synthetic event.  Probably I'm
programming it awry.


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