[TriLUG] twm simple question, I hope?

[Mike Norwood]

Thanks for the suggestion.  The situation is that we already have a Cobol 
(yes, Cobol) program that brings us to the point of scanning.  It is 
really easy at this point to turn it over to a shell which calls the 
display program to show the picture.  I can actually get it to work easily 
using gnome-session instead of twm, but by default it loads a lot of extra 
stuff that we don't really want or need on that screen.  Maybe I can just 
mess around with making a very limited gnome startup file, but hoped there 
might be some simple way to tweak twm.

Thanks again,  Mike

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Brian Phelps wrote:

> I'd use a simple c program using X11/Xlib.h, I have to do stuff like
> this all the time for embedded type apps
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Mike Norwood <norwoodm at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to do something as simply and as quickly as possible, and
> > wondered if anyone might still be familiar with controlling the twm window
> > manager.  I wanted to use the simplest window manager that I could find to
> > do this one specific thing and this seems to be it.  I am opening one
> > terminal screen on startup, just xterm, which displays a software screen,
> > which allows for the scanning of a barcode.  When this barcode is scanned,
> > it opens a new window using the display (Imagemagick) program that shows a
> > picture of the item that is scanned.    This works, but the problem is
> > that I then have to click into the picture window to focus on it, so I can
> > hit escape to exit it.  I then have to click back into the application
> > window for the next scan.  Ideally I would like the new window to become
> > the focus when it opens, so that the person using it would just need to
> > view the picture, then hit escape, which closes the window and focuses
> > back on the previous window for the next scan.
> >
> > I realize I have been a little long winded with this explanation, but if
> > anyone understands what I am asking and knows how to configure twm to
> > shift the focus of the windows back and forth without the mouse clicks,
> > your help would really be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,  Mike Norwood
> >
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