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Re: How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager?
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager? |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:50:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) |
"seberino@spawar.navy.mil" <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:
> Possible to run many varied app in Emacs? In other words, I want to
> use Emacs like my window manager.
>
> I don't necessarily want to use apps (like mail and IRC) specific to
> Emacs...rather I want to use *arbitrary* apps in Emacs.
>
> I know about term-mode. I don't know if that is the best or only way
> to do this.
>
> Does anyone do this? Is it advisable?
Some X applications accept a -windowid argument. You can get the
window ID of your emacs X frame, and give it to your applications so
they display in the emacs frame.
For example:
xv -windowid $(xwininfo -int 2> /dev/null |awk '/Window id/{print $4}') \
-maxpect -smooth *.jpg
xwininfo waits for a mouse click in some window and returns its window
ID amongst other information.
I guess the window-id frame parameter is the X window ID.
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__Pascal Bourguignon__