I use winwatch with my plan 9 box (when it's running) to manage something like virtual desktops with sub-rio sessions.  Winwatch actually helps me manage the sub-rio's.

I just have a bunch of rc scripts edit /dev/label via echo etc.  I don't bother with C coding unless I absolutely have to on Plan 9.

Dave

On 7/2/07, Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net> wrote:
I realize that abaco manages multiple web pages itself,
but, for reasons I won't go into, I generally launch a new
small abaco window for each web page. To help this style
of usage along, I've been trying to incorporate writing
to /dev/label into the abaco code. I took this bit

        int fd;
        fd = open("/dev/label", OWRITE);
        if(fd >= 0) {
                write(fd, title, strlen((char *)title));
                close(fd);
        }

from plan9.c in links-varfont since links exhibits the
behavior I'm looking for. I've tried using this substituting
various combinations of w->tag, w->page.title , &w->tag,
&w->page.title etc. for "title" and putting the lot into
winsettag1 in abaco/wind.c with no luck (In most cases,
either the build fails with prototype mismatch, or the
build is successful, but I only get an apparently unrelated
character or two in winwatch).

The usual I'm-no-programmer-apologies etc. etc.

Thanks for any help moving this small customization along.

Greg




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