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Re: Xy4 - OS options

Yeah, if you see it in glipper, it's there. Are you using the same
version of Ubuntu on both machines? clipboard-daemon solved problems I
had in earlier releases; doesn't seem necessary in 10.04, though I have
glipper running in case.

I take it Thunderbird is the only program you have this issue with -- do
you have this problem with Tbird if you try to bring in something from
OpenOffice. The other thought I have is, is the selection available via
right-click,paste but not ctrl-v, or vice versa; I see this on occasion
when pasting into some non-Gnome apps (the source of material doesn't
seem to matter). I don't think it's something that can be solved using
gconf, but if you do, let me know.


For a while now I've been using a revised version of xytonix.sh:

#! /bin/bash
#
# for xywrite/dosemu, for use with xytonix.pm
#
# requires that xsel and iconv be installed
#
# removes EOF from frxy, removes carriage return (converting cr|lf to lf)
# converts from CP 850 to UTF-8
# pipes result to clipboard for system use
#
tr -d "\032" UTF-8 -c|xsel -i -b

No need to use or delete a transition file. I have been told xsel is a
better choice than xclip, and iconv will convert from one character set
to the other. 850 is the codepage I use in XyWrite; if you use something
else, you need to change that. Don't think it will have any affect on
your Thunderbird problem, though.


I also use them in nixtoxy.pm
BX es 1Q2 BX do/nv system xsel -b|iconv -f UTF-8 -t 850//IGNORE|todos
-afp>~/data/xy4/clip/toxy&Q2 BX pQ2 BX me \xy4\clip\toxyQ2 «EX»


Paul
On 06/10/2011 06:25 PM, Raphael wrote:
This looks like it has some potential, Paul, though it will be a week
or two before I can try it out. I am grown leery of Intel graphic
cards: you may recall me whining about my netbook's full-screen DOS,
which is pretty lame -- instead of actually occupying the entire
screen with a CGA font, it simply puts a black border around the
window. It's not unusable, but not what we're after. On the other
hand, the NVIDIA card in my desktop is a champ in this (and every)
department.

By the way, I gave clipboard-daemon a try, and it didn't seem to
help. It's the damndest thing, since this xytonix.sh works ok on my
netbook but not on the desktop. On the netbook, once I've used
XyWrite to save to /home/public/clipxy.clz, if I invoke xytonix.sh, I
can happily paste the very text into a Thunderbird "compose mail"
window. On the desktop box, however, it won't paste -- even though
it's somewhere in the system clipboard. I have to use glipper, which
as you probably know is a Gnome clipboard utility, to select the
clipboard selection, and then I can paste into Thunderbird. It's only
a slight nuisance but mostly it drives me crazy because the scripts
are identical in every way. Hmm, I wonder if there's a gconf-editor
setting that might do the trick?


#!/bin/sh
#
# for xywrite/dosemu, for use with xytonix.pm
# removes EOF from frxy and outputs result to frxya
# copies frxya to clipboard for system use
# deletes frxy
dos2unix -fp /home/public/clipxy.clz;\
tr -d '\032' < /home/public/clipxy.clz > /home/public/frxya;\
xclip -i -selection c < /home/public/frxya;\
rm /home/public/frxya
exit

-Rafe

On 06/10/2011 05:34 PM, Paul Lagasse wrote:
On 06/06/2011 11:16 AM, Raphael wrote:
2) So far I haven't devised a way to switch straight to a task from
within full-screen XyWrite -- I have to switch to windowed Xy to get
to the desktop, and then switch to the application

Rafe, I may have a solution to this, or part of a solution. HOWEVER,
I've encountered one rather major problem in testing this, and that's
that my monitor loses its signal sometimes. The problem becomes
severe enough at times to require rebooting (this is in Mint 10,
Ubuntu 10.10), and may be a result of the machine's having Intel
graphics and/or my Dosemu font choice. Using ctrl+alt+f independently
of any of the scripts below can crash the graphics on my machine (it
seems that the move in and out of fullscreen is causing the crash),
so maybe that won't happen for you, but caveat emptor. As a result
the crashes, I can't get these all to work together on my machine
without a crash, though at times they have worked fine separately. In
theory (a nice thing, theory), they should all work just fine if my
graphics card and my Dosemu font choice could tolerate it.

For the below to work, you need to install wmctrl and xdotool if you
haven't already.

To make XyWrite fullscreen from a minimized state, you run a script
I'll call fullscreen.sh, assigned to the Gnome keyboard shortcut of
your choice:


#!/bin/bash
#
wmctrl -a {name-of-your-XyWrite-window-in-titlebar, e.g. Dosemu} &&
xdotool key ctrl+alt+f

To minimize XyWrite from fullscreen you run minimize.pm, which ends
by running minimize.sh; assign minimize.pm to the XyWrite keyboard
shortcut of your choice. (I think that fullscreen.sh and minimize.pm
can, in most instances, share the same key combo, because Gnome won't
respond to keys entered in a fullscreen Xy4 session, and Xy4 won't
react to anything while minimized).


minimize.pm:

BX es 1Q2 ;*;
BX dos/nv/x/z /c xmode -fullscreen offQ2 ;*;
BX do/nv system /home/pgl/bin/minimize.sh &Q2 ;*;
«EX»

minimize.sh:

#!/bin/bash
#
sleep 1 && xdotool key {gnome-keyboard-shortcut-for-minimize, e.g.
ctrl+alt+m}


More caveats:
The sleep command may or may not be necessary. You can test to see if
you don't need it by removing "sleep 1 &&" from the script. On the
other hand, it might need to be "sleep 2" (1 = 1 sec.)

Not every keyboard shortcut seems to work with xdotool, and I can't
tell you why. I got "xdotool key super+0" to work, but not "xdotool
key Mod4+0" or "xdotool key super+-"


If you put

BX dos/nv/x/z /c xmode -fullscreen onQ2 ;*;
in STARTUP.INT, Xy4 should launch fullscreen by default. xmode is a
Dosemu command. It worked once, crashed once.

I've gotten tired of the crashes, and decided to pass this along AS
IS to see if it might work at your end, esp. since you seem to have
no complaints about switching into and out of fullscreen Dosemu. My
apologies if this turns out buggy for you.


Paul Lagasse