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Re: [Feature Req] More control from a console

From: Zajcev Evgeny <lg@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Feature Req] More control from a console
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:23:37 +0400
Organization: xwem.org
User-agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) SXEmacs/22.1.3 (BMW, berkeley-unix)
Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> I was just thinking (a very dangerous pastime I know), that it'd be
> nice to be able to control more of XWEM from a gnuclient session in a
> console.  For those times when things go belly up.
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is:
>
> In a gnuclient session on another console, be able to switch to an
> ordinary SXEmacs buffer that was a "representation" of an XWEM client,
> for example, an XTerm.  And then from that buffer, be able to send
> things to the actual client, like a SIGKILL, SIGTERM, etc.
>
> Crap ASCII art of how I see it looking:
>
>   +--------------------------------------------+
>   |           XWEM Client Buffer               |
>   |           ==================               |
>   |                                            |
>   |  Client: Mozilla                           |
>   |  Uptime: 3 days, 14 hours, 10 minutes      |
>   |                                            |
>   |  Send a signal to this client with:        |
>   |                                            |
>   |  M-x xwem-tty-signal-client RET SIGNAL RET |
>   |                                            |
>   |  SIGNAL can be one of:                     |
>   |    kill term abort hup                     |
>   |                                            |
>   |  Killing this buffer will kill the XWEM    |
>   |  client that it represents.                |
>   +--------------------------------------------+
>
> ...it was just an idle thought. :-)

All of this will be in interactive xwem (ixwem), if it will be written
ever :).  But i'm sure it will be

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