[K12OSN] Fl_TeacherTool wont auto startup in ICEWM in a workspace > 1

[Robert Arkiletian]

2008/11/17 Charles M Hale <chuck at qwk2lrn.net>:
> We are using Fl_TeacherTool with the ICEWM window's manager and we are
> trying to startup Fl_TeacherTool in a workspace other than the primary
> workspace.
> ICEWM has a very good facility for doing this; its the 'winoptions' file in
> the .icewm subdirectory.
> Its seems that our directive of <WindowName>.workspace: <workspace number>
> is being iignored.
> We have Fl_TeacherTool starting up in workspace 1.  We would like it to
> startup in workspace 2 or 3.
> We noted that when Fl_TeacherTool starts, we has 'Fl_Teachertool @ <server
> hostname>' as the identifying text in the window, we/ve use all possible
> combinations for our <WindowName> and Fl_TeacherTool continues to startup in
> the first workspace.

I think I figured it out. At least I hope I did. I have a fix. I hope.
This is an interesting problem. Have a look at the documentation for icewm

http://www.icewm.org/manual/icewm-14.html#winoptions

"It's possible that an application's class and/or name contains the
dot character (".") used by IceWM to separate class, name and role
values. To lock it, precede it with the backslash character. In the
following example, we suppose an application's window has the.class as
its class value and the.name as its name value :
the\.class.the\.name.option: argument"

The problem arises because my program grabs the hostame (which usually
has a "." in it and tacks that onto the window name". So the "." is
not escaped. The only solution I have is to get rid of the @hostame
part of the window name in my code.

So search for these two lines in fl_teachertool.cxx (it's in the main function)

host=getstdout("echo $HOSTNAME","Error: Could not get Hostname");
host.insert(0, "Fl_TeacherTool @ ");

and just replace it with

host="Fl_TeacherTool";

Hopefully that will solve the problem.

>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get Fl_TeacherTool to  start in a
> workspace other than the first one.
>
>
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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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