owplaces(1)

NAME
owplaces - save information about running X clients

SYNOPSIS

owplaces

DESCRIPTION
owplaces is a script for saving the status of currently running X clients for future use. The script calls xtoolplaces included in the Linux xview distribution to do the actual work. The output from xtoolplaces is stored as a shell script called .openwin-init in the users home directory.

The purpose of this command is to allow the user to customize the desktop to his wishes. The "Utilities/Save Workspace" menu item in the root menu invokes this program. The openwin command will check for the existence of .openwin-init , and will run it to restore the setup the next time X is started. This method can be seen as a more "user friendly" alternative to manually editing .xinitrc

DESIGNER
Adam Stein <adam@iset.scan.mc.xerox.com>

Linux port by <mrb@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de>

Minor linux changes by Kenneth Osterberg <lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se>

AVAILABILITY
owplaces is part of the Linux port of XView. Get it from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xview3L*

BUGS
xtoolplaces is known to hang when querying the state of some X clients. XView clients provide information about their position and window sizes etc. This is not generally true about all X clients, which means that the current session cannot be restored exactly in most cases. The problem can be alleviated somewhat by manually editing .openwin-init to insert additional command line arguments. All such changes will of course be overwritten the next time this program is run.

SEE ALSO
xtoolplaces(1) openwin(1)