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From: mangin@debussy.inria.fr (Frank Mangin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: (t)vtwm wishes
Keywords: tvtwm, vtwm
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.134606@debussy.inria.fr>
Date: 1 Sep 90 11:10:06 GMT
Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr
Reply-To: mangin@debussy.inria.fr (Frank Mangin)
Organization: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
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  I am using vtwm on SPARC station, and I would like to express some wishes:

  - When pointing at a window in the panner, wouldn't it be possible to
have a small text area under the panner displaying the name of the
window? Without that it's quite difficult to know which window you are
moving when the panner is small.

- For tvtwm, please don't remove the "DontMoveOff" variable, it IS
usefull, even with a virtual desktop.

- and last but not least, a more general wish: for any X client, there
should be an action (or a function for twm) that would exec a shell
command (this often exists), along with a way for the subshell to get
information about the application "state". Some examples:
     . For twm, context and window-id of the action that invoked the    
function
     . For xrn, current newsgroup, path of the current message          
displayed, ...

  this would make customization really easier!

	Frank Mangin                
	Inria                            Phone #93 65 78 66
	2004 route des Lucioles          Email: mangin@mirsa.inria.fr
	06560 Valbonne Cedex
	France