[STUMP] window-send-string to certain apps

[Dmitri Minaev]

While enjoying the pleasures of working with a really scriptable
window manager, I've hit a problem. For an unknown reason (if any)
window-send-string does not insert text into some applications.
Namely, XTerm and Thunderbird composition window.

Here's what I do:
(define-stumpwm-command "insert-timestamp" ()
 (window-send-string (current-window) (multiple-value-bind (s m h
date month year)
                                           (get-decoded-time)
                                         (format nil "~d-~2,'0d-~2,'0d 
~2,'0d:~2,'0d:~d" year month date h m s))))

In Firefox the result is predictable: 2007-07-24 13:30:52. It also
works in OpenOffice, Konsole, gnome-terminal and most other
applications. I might think that there is something special in the way
XTerm and Thunderbird process X events, but the "insert" command
behaves as expected, as if there was a difference between the strings
typed by the user and the lisp strings.

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With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev

Russian history blog: http://minaev.blogspot.com