On Wednesday, 22 December at 07:08, Steve Litt wrote:
> (...)
>PDC (Pretty Darn Cool)!

Thank you!

>
>With my /bin/sh (which I believe is dash) I had to change:
>
>function whatever {
>
>to
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>whatever() {
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>on all three function declarations.

Yes, now that you mention it, that tends to vary between shells. I should
have included them.

>
>In the rest of this email, I'm referring to your program as jacketc to
>save myself some keystrokes.
>
>On my computer, Xterm normally has a nice 14 point font that I set in
>.Xdefaults. But in jacketc, the fact that you give it a name
>(jackinthebox) makes the font go to about 5 point, which is totally
>useless for my eyes. Do I need to make some special adjustment in
>.Xdefaults?

I don't know much about .Xdefaults (mine just has some yeahconsole
leftovers), but xterm should have a parameter to define the font (and its
size), maybe something like -fc?

As a temporary workaround, you can ctrl-rightclick anywhere in the window to
get a menu, allowing you to change the font size.

>
>I'm used to these kinds of terminals not having window decorations. Any
>way to accomplish that?

That would depend on your window manager. I use Fluxbox, so I have the
following lines in $HOME/.fluxbox/apps:

[app] (name=jackinthebox) {1}
[Deco] {NONE}
[end]

YWMMV [ Your Window Manager May Vary :^D ]

>
>On my machine, jacketc doesn't shift focus to the newly appeared
>window. Is there a reason why not?

Huh, that's odd. The "windowfocus" command should do that, with "windowraise"
thrown in for good measure.

YWMMV, again?

>
>In any window manager enabling you to execute arbitrary commands with a
>keystroke, you can just set that keystroke to run jacketc.

Sounds convenient if you have one of those window managers :^)

>
>Thanks for introducing me to xdotool. I'll be using that a lot from now
>on. Just another reason I'm going to wait as long as possible to switch
>to Wayland.
>
>I do have one criticism of jacketc: Lennart Poettering wouldn't approve
>of it.

It's probably best if I not voice my opinion on the subject (not, I suspect,
that many here would disagree with me).

>
>:-)
>
>SteveT

Sorry for not answering earlier (holidays and all that, y'know). In any case,
thank you for your feedback; always appreciated.

- Antoine

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