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* How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager?
@ 2009-02-23 23:20 seberino
  2009-02-24  1:33 ` emacsnews
  2009-02-24  1:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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From: seberino @ 2009-02-23 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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?





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* Re: How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager?
  2009-02-23 23:20 How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager? seberino
@ 2009-02-24  1:33 ` emacsnews
  2009-02-24  1:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: emacsnews @ 2009-02-24  1:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

"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?
Hi,
   never tried it myself but you could give this a go:
   
            http://www.nongnu.org/xwem/

-- 
aleblanc


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* Re: How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager?
  2009-02-23 23:20 How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager? seberino
  2009-02-24  1:33 ` emacsnews
@ 2009-02-24  1:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pascal J. Bourguignon @ 2009-02-24  1:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

"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.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


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