[svlug] clipboard access tool

[Seth David Schoen]

Joey Hess writes:

> Seth David Schoen wrote:
> > Well, you are looking for something that's both -- it would
> > presumably be linked against Xlib, but not create any windows.
> > There are many X apps like that -- xhost, xauth, xlsfonts, and
> > xlsclients come to mind.
> 
> At one point, I think I had a pointer to a collection of utilities that
> essentially exposed all the important X library calls as simple programs
> usable from the shell. In theory, one could write a window manager in
> shell using that (it might be command-line driven:
> 
> % listwindows
> 1 xterm
> 2 xterm
> 3 xchat
> 4 netscape
> 5 xterm
> 6 xterm
> % asclock
> [2] 31780
> % dock --pid=31780
> % tile --windowname=xterm --style=grid
> % hide 3
> % maximize 4 --undo
> % move 4 --up 50 --to-current-desktop
> % focus 4
> 
> )
> 
> Sadly, I have lost the pointer, and for all I know, such a toolset is
> apocryphal. But if so, someone should write it.

You could call it mhwm, the MH-style Window Manager.

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