Re: [rox-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Rox Session always gets xfce4

[Jonatan L. <th...@ho...>]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:15:20 -0500
Peter <sw...@ho...> wrote:

> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:27:49 +0000
> > Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:03:36PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> >>  [...]
> more snip.....
> > There should be AppDir wrappers for all common WM's out there!
> > Here's a simple generic script to switch to a WM by clicking it.
> > Edit the line"PROG=myfavoritewm" so that it gets set to the WM you
> > want to start. Then just click the script and it will switch. If you
> > want to do good stuff for human kind, make a nice AppDir of it and
> > let's make a Wiki page with all collected WM wrappers.
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > APP_DIR=`dirname "$0"`
> > APP_DIR=`cd "$APP_DIR";pwd`
> > cd "$APP_DIR"
> > 
> snip...
> 
> WOW, Jonathan. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Dbus, otherwise I
> would like to help.  But I can't help recalling that there WAS a time
> when there was a ROX-Session settings tool that you could use to view
> and select from a list of available Window Managers. That disappeared
> I believe about the time Look and Feel came about.
> 
> Sorry to be such a novice at this, but as a USER, I hope these
> comments are taken in the spirit in which they are offerred.

You don't need to know anything about Dbus (except to have it
installed!). Anyhow, I just tried out the script above and I can't get
it to work... =)  So, I fixed it:

#!/bin/sh
APP_DIR=`dirname "$0"`
APP_DIR=`cd "$APP_DIR";pwd`
cd "$APP_DIR"

PROG=myfavoritewm

dbus-send --type=method_call \
--dest=net.sf.rox.Session /Settings \
net.sf.rox.Session.Settings.SetString \
string:ROX/WindowManager \
string:"$PROG" ||
{
    echo "You should probably upgrade your ROX-Session..." >&2
    exec "$PROG"
}
#-------------------cut---------------------

To make an AppDir for some WM (say, sawfish for example), just make a
directory called "Sawfish" and copy the above script into Sawfish/AppRun
and make it executable. Then edit the script so the line PROG=... says
"PROG=sawfish". Done! Just click the AppDir and ROX-Session will kill
your current WM and switch to sawfish. It would also be nice to add an
icon for it: locate some sawfish icon and copy it into Sawfish/.DirIcon

Anyhow, for your convenience I just made a simple application that pops
up an entry box where you can write in the name of a WM and rox-session
will switch to it! It doesn't scans for available WM's, you'll have to
know what WM you want to run yourself. ;) It's available at
http://kymatica.com/rox/SwitchWM.tar.bz2

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-