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Re: Xy4 - OS options

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