I've been using WindowMaker for years. Usually, I customize it by tinkering with dockapps (trivial) or hacking the Root menu (easy). Years ago, I used to have a process that would fetch the headlines from slashdot and a few other sites, and turn them into dynamic menus. That was back before RSS, and syndication meant parsing ultramode.txt
Today, I noticed that the most frequent use of my w3m menu entry was to view the URL in the X clipboard buffer. So why not add another menu entry to view the URL in the clipboard buffer? Easier said than done. Unfortunately, the %-escapes WindowMaker uses aren't very well documented. But they are documented.
Poking around the source distribution, I found some entries back from the 0.12.0 release that describes the %-escapes WindowMaker uses:
*** Escape thingies for menu and dock commands: %w - substitute with current selected X window ID %s - substitute with current selection %d - substitute with last dropped object %a(some text) - opens a input box with "some text" as a title. Then, the text typed will be substituted there \r, \n - substitute with corresponding characters
That was easy. :-) Maybe I'll get around to adding root menu aliases for sites I frequently browse with w3m: google, new useperl journal entries, etc.
But what would be even more useful is to have a simple command-line program that outputs the contents of the X clipboard to standard output. (Fortunately there's the * buffer on vim to handle this.)mozilla -remote 'openurl(url,new-tab)'
Re:And the command-line ?
ziggy on 2002-12-12T23:28:03
The command line for this hack is a variant of the one I posted earlier:rxvt -fn -fixed +sb -geometry 80x40 -e w3m -cookie %sThe X clipboard inspector widget is relatively simple. The tricky part is getting the quoting right. Here's the entry from my WMRootMenu:
(
"X Clipboard inspector",
SHEXEC,
"rxvt -fn -fixed +sb -e sh -c 'echo \"%s\"; read wait'"
),(Just hit return to dismiss this window)
Re:And the command-line ?
waltman on 2002-12-13T03:39:14
But what would be even more useful is to have a simple command-line program that outputs the contents of the X clipboard to standard output.Why do you need a separate tool, when shift-insert already does that? (Although not, annoying enough, in Mozilla's url box.)
Re:And the command-line ?
rafael on 2002-12-13T09:58:23
Window-manager-agnostic launch scripts. When I don't use WindowMaker, I use wmx, an ultra-light but very useable (and good-looking) WM. (I think of it as the "vi of window managers".)
