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From: libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: REFRESHING SUNTOOLS
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Date: 18 Jan 89 18:51:30 GMT
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mephdbo%prism@gatech.edu (d. majumder) writes:
>Is there any way of calling REFRESH other than using the Suntools
>RootMenu.  I mean from a Shell program, etc.

One of our users had the exact same question.  It seems he wanted to run
X-window based programs under suntools.  The only problem he encountered
was that the sun windows wouldn't refresh.  The simplest solution was to
send a signal to suntools.

Since Sun distributes the source to suntools, it is relatively trivial to
add a couple of lines to catch the signal and call the refresh routine.

On the other hand, has anyone hacked up X so that it can automatically
cause suntools to do the refresh?  That would be much better.

Don Libes          libes@cme.nbs.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes