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Dreameen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Freeze!!!..window

I'm wondering if there's a way to freeze a certain window that is to be closed after some time normally.

For example, I wish to freeze the Fortune window so I could actually read the fortune before it closes. I know there's the -w option but sometimes it's just not enough.

I'm running fortunes automatically with a startup script in XFCE4. They are displayed in aterm, which quits after displaying the fortune+some_calculated_time.

paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: Freeze!!!..window

i'm assuming maybe you've got something like this in your .xinitrc
aterm -e fortune

maybe if you wrote a script like this, it would help:

#!/bin/sh
fortune
read

the read command waits for you to press enter.

Dreameen

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Re: Freeze!!!..window

Thanks. That's just what I wanted.