How run many varied apps in Emacs like a window manager?

[sebe...@spawar.navy.mil]

Possible to run many varied app in Emacs? In other words, I want to
use Emacs like my window manager.

I don't necessarily want to use apps (like mail and IRC) specific to
Emacs...rather I want to use *arbitrary* apps in Emacs.

I know about term-mode. I don't know if that is the best or only way
to do this.

Does anyone do this? Is it advisable?

[emac...@aleblanc.cotse.net]

"sebe...@spawar.navy.mil" <sebe...@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

Hi,
never tried it myself but you could give this a go:

http://www.nongnu.org/xwem/

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aleblanc

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

"sebe...@spawar.navy.mil" <sebe...@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

Some X applications accept a -windowid argument. You can get the
window ID of your emacs X frame, and give it to your applications so
they display in the emacs frame.

For example:

xv -windowid $(xwininfo -int 2> /dev/null |awk '/Window id/{print $4}') \
-maxpect -smooth *.jpg

xwininfo waits for a mouse click in some window and returns its window
ID amongst other information.

I guess the window-id frame parameter is the X window ID.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__