Re: wmaker and docked remote apps
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> When I originally drag the appicon over to the dock, it runs there just
> fine, but if, for example, the appicon was for a
>
> ssh -f remotehost wmmon
>
> the dock icon's settings will show only
>
> wmmon
>
> and killing the app instance and restarting it will, predictably, run the
> new instance on the local machine.
>
> I can get it to run on the remote machine by manually editing the dock
> icon's command to include the ssh command, but this has another problem:
> the instance creates a new appicon instead of running within the dock.
WindowMaker will do that. But, if you dock the new appicon that was
created when you ran it with the ssh -f ... command, it should work ok
then. I'm guessing you're using ssh-agent or something similar of
authentication, because i can't get this to work ;)
i run into the same problem sometimes, i'll dock an app i ran with
"./wmpasman", then kill and restart it and it can't find the file. So i
edit the settings to be "/home/blah/.../wmpasman" and it makes a new
appicon. Docking the new appicon then works perfectly.
This is actually an issue with the dockapp itself. If the app would use
the same name all the time, there would be no problem. But when the app
uses ARGV[0], then the name is different depending on the path and
WindowMaker makes a new appicon.
> So, is there a way (preferably using ssh) to get Window Maker to run apps
> on a remote host and display them in the dock?
Does it work to dock the new appicon?
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