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From: gst@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Tossing windows out the ... er, window
Message-ID: <97@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 17:44:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: wjh12.97
Posted: Sun Sep 20 17:44:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 23:41:38 EDT
References: <840@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: gst@wjh12.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Followup-To: sun!sunne!gnosys!gst
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
Lines: 130
Keywords: 3B1 windows windy STORE
Summary: Try "windy" from THE STORE!

In article <840@atari.UUCP> dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:

> Has anyone successfully thrown away the entire windowing system on the
> 3B1?  I've already removed the "exec" line from my .profile script,
> but I'd like to be able to use the ENTIRE SCREEN for editing and so
> on.  (I'd also like to make the mouse invisible).
> 
> They're MY pixels -- I want to use them!
> 
> It is an impressive machine for the price....

Well, I recently came across a gizmo from AT&Ts "THE STORE!" in New Jersey
(201-957-4646 (1200 baud)) called "windy" which, among other things, permits
one to enlarge a window to the full screen size (and throw away the window
borders).  It appears that source code for "windy" is also available.

[By the way, they also have something called "capctl" which is an installable
driver for the keyboard which allows you to use the "caps lock" key for a
control key.  I could not and would not try to train my fingers to use the
"ctrl" key next to the space bar.  "capctl" also allows you to flip quickly
from one window to the next without having to go to a menu.]

Here's the description that comes with "windy," written by Jim Reeds:


| windy, a tool for inspecting and manipulating window parameters.
| See the article 'window' in Section 7 of the 7300 System V Administrator's
| manual, and see the file /usr/include/sys/window.h
| 
| Brief theory.  Each window has these parameters:
| (the ones marked RO are not alterable by a user)
| 
| NAME		ARG	TYPE		MEANING
| 
| uw_x		-x	16 bits		x coord of upper left corner, in pixels
| uw_y		-y	16 bits		y coord of upper left corner, in pixels
| uw_width	-w	16 bits		width of window, in pixels
| uw_height	-h	16 bits		height of window, in pixels
| uw_uflags	-f	16 bits		word of bits.  see 
| 					/usr/include/sys/window.h
| 					You can alter bits 4ff.
| uw_hs			8 bits[RO]		?
| uw_vs			8 bits[RO]		?
| uw_baseline		8 bits[RO]		?
| uw_cx			16 bits[RO]		?
| uw_cy			16 bits[RO]		?
| 
| PROMPT		-p	char string	'prompt' line
| CMD		-c	char string	'command' line
| LABEL		-l	char string	label on top of window border
| USER		-n	char string	name of window as reported W icon.
| SLK1		-1	char string	first line of F-key labels
| SLK2		-2	char string	second line of F-key labels
| 
| The 29-line screen is divied up like this:
| 
| Line 1:	status line
| Lines 2-25: window lines
| Line 26: the prompt line
| Line 27: the line a user types in
| Line 28: the top line of special function key labels
| Line 29: the bottom line of ditto.
| 
| OK.  the program windy can be used to 
| 	1) report these things or
| 	2) alter them.
| 
| Examples of use: (see the column labeles ARGS above)
| 1.  To get a report about current window, do this:
| 	windy -r
| 
| 2.  To alter current window name:
| 	windy -n "My New Name"
| 
| 3.  To alter size of current window:
| 	windy -w 400 -h 100
| 
| 4.  To make current window borderless & of maximal size:
| 	windy
| 
| 5.  To make a new borderless maximal window with 'vi file' running
| in it:
| 	windy vi file
| 
| 6.  To do the above and call the new window "Vi Hotshot":
| 	windy -n "Vi Hotshot" vi file
| 
| 	
| In general, there are 2 forms:
| 
| 	windy -r
| 	windy [window-args] [command-args]
| 
| As we saw, windy -r just reports on current window.  In the second case, 
| if no command-args are given, the window-args apply to the current window.
| If command-args are given, a new window is created and the window-args
| apply to it, and the indicated command is run in the new window.
| An empty window-args list means borderless & maximal size.
| 
| Valid window args are listed in ARGS column of table above.  The only
| zinger is this: the -f arg must be specified in hex, the other numerical
| args in decimal.
| 
| NEW STUFF 5 Dec 85
| === ===== = === ==
| 
| Two new flags: -b -K
| 
| -b applies only to windy invocations that create a new window, viz, those
| that specify command-args.  It puts the command in the new window in
| the background, so that if you return to the window manager and select
| your shell, the shell will not wait for the windy command to finish.
| 
| Try "windy -b directu" and click on the corner W and select the shell,
| contrast with "windy directu" followed by ditto: much better the -b way.
| 
| NOTE:  there is a command 'resume' which is a shelly way of selecting
| windows for the mouse shy.
| 
| -K is used to put RVideo mode on the SLK labels. You invoke windy with 
| an argument list like:
| 
| 	windy -1 "special key label, row 1" -2 "special key label, row 2" \
| 		-K " rrrrrrrr rrrrrrr rrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr "
| 
| and whereever an 'r' occurs in the K-arg, the corresponding slk label
| noodle will be in reverse video.  The other entries will be blank.
-- 
	Gary Trujillo
	(harvard!wjh12!gst)