[Scwm-devs] Re: done testing style.scm (mostly) (help needed)

[Greg B. <ba...@cs...>]

It might be worth checking in with some other wm developers to see if
anyone has got a simple command line tool that fires off X11 windows
with properties/hints set by options to the tool.  It'd be
straightforward to write, too, but it seems like someone should've
already done it (maybe part of an X11 contrib package).

Thanks,
Greg


Jason Lowdermilk <low...@ea...> writes:

> The only way I know to see what hints an app has set is to use xprop to
> look at the window's properties. For example the mwm hints go into an
> atom called MOTIF_WM_HINTS. You might be able to tell from the code
> exactly what atoms correspond to each of those hints. I'll take a look
> at some of the apps on my system to see if I come across any of the
> one's you're looking for.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 00:53, Scott Lenser wrote:
> > 
> > I've mostly finished testing style.scm.  Ugh, this file is
> > annoying :-(.  I wasn't able to test the following functions
> > because I need to find apps that set the hints and I don't know
> > how to check reasonably easily whether an app uses these hints
> > and I don't know which apps set this hints.  This is where the
> > help comes in.  I need to find apps that set these hints.  If you
> > know of such apps I can just use them.  If you know how to
> > check what hints an app has set I can look through a lot of apps
> > that seem likely to be setting hints until I find ones to use
> > to test these hints.
> > 
> > The untested hint stuff is:
> > 
> > #:hint-override, #:mwm-decor-hint, #:mwm-func-hint,
> > #:PPosition-hint, #:OL-decor-hint, #:lenience
> > 
> > Anyway, everything else in the file is tested.
> > 
> > Summary:
> > Mostly doc fixes.  Added new concepts 'Style Option' and 'Style Entry'.
> > A few documentation of broken C routines breaking the scheme stuff.
> > A couple of fixed functions.
> > 
> > Changelog:
> > 
> > Changes in scheme/:
> > 
> >         * style.scm:
> >         Added comment about what the structure for a style looks like.
> >         Added docs for 'style-one-window', 'clear-window-style', 'make-style',
> >           'make-conditional-style', 'apply-style'.
> >         Improved doc for 'window-style'.
> >         Fixed 'window-unstyle' so that it works for splicing styles.  Also,
> >           added note to doc that it removes all instances of the style.
> >         Fixed 'clear-window-style' which was accessing an undefined variable.
> >         Added comments explaining private functions 'mcs-complain',
> >           'mcs-parse-args'.
> >         Added concept for 'Style Entry'.
> >         Formatting improvements for style-entry:* functions.
> >         Improved 'simplify-style' by making it actually do some simplification.
> >           Specifically, made it remove empty styles (which get created all the
> >           time by splicing styles).
> >         Added BROKEN comments to #:icon-title, #:start-iconified,
> >           #:decorate-transient.
> >           #:start-iconified crashes scwm because the 'iconify-window' call
> >           is made before the icon window created because of where the hook
> >           runs.  This appears to be in order to make #:start-iconified sort
> >           of work.  Removed #:start-iconified option until this can be
> >           fixed.
> >         Discovered that #:show-icon only works as a hint and only when set to
> >           #f.  Changed from style to hint to reflect when it actually works.
> >         Found out #:icon only works as hint.  Changed to hint from style until
> >           'set-icon!' gets fixed.  Causes window to vanish when applied to an
> >           existing window.
> >         Added FIXME noting that #:button x only shows the button if it is bound
> >           to a mouse event (very unintuitive).
> >         Added FIXME about adding documentation to style options.
> >         Fixed #:other-proc style option which was not setting the option type.
> >         Added FIXMEs for the following style options which have not been tested
> >           yet: #:hint-override, #:mwm-decor-hint, #:mwm-func-hint,
> >           #:PPosition-hint, #:OL-decor-hint, #:lenience.
> > 
> >         * style-options.scm: Added concept for 'Style Option'.
> > 
> > Changes in src/:
> > 
> >         * face.c:
> >         Added FIXME for documenting style options.
> >         Improved doc for 'Window Style' concept and added references to
> >           new concepts added 'Style Option' and 'Style Entry'.
> > 
> > Whew.
> > 
> > Glad that one's mostly over :-)
> > 
> > - Scott
> > 
> >