Questions about x-windows, startx (Extremely long and probably most blahblah)

[Joachim Dagerot]

I have managed to get everything up and running now, including my NVIDIA
card with tv-out on my FreeBSD 5.1. THANKS FOLKS.


Now come the fun part, I have managed to, in .xinitrc have a specific
program running when I run startx. That's lovely.

Now I would like to start and close additional programs, aswell as
maximize, bring to front and back etc. BUT FROM OUTSIDE THE X
ENVIRONMENT.

Why? You ask. Let me tell you the story of my life :-)

[BACKGROUND]

I have a freeBSD running as a file, web and servcice server. It is
located in a closet and there's no such thing as keyboard or monitor
attached to it.

It is however connected (since a few days back) to a TV-set.

In the same room as the TV is also a small device called SLIMP3 located.
(www.slimp3.com) along other thing this device sends all IR-signals
flooding the room to the server. At the server I can do whatever I want
with the signal.

So I have created an ImageViewer application written in JAVA. It's
controlled by different HTML-requests (http://server/ail?next,
http://server/ail?prev etc) and those requests comes from the service
that serves the SLIMP3 device.

All above is still in alpha stage but it's working great so far.

[END BACKGROUND]


Now to my problems:

I would like to start/stop different programs (such as the java-program
mentioned above). I would also like to have many programs running, but
only see one at a time (bring to front, maximize).

I understand this is certainly not a yes/no question, but if someone can
hint me on a window manager that's accessible from outside X, or some
other remote controlled software that might be of interest I would be
glad.


Finally, I will ofcourse post all sources as soon as I have commented
them, and, perhaps, made them a bit more general than they are today,
please feel free to contact me for further details.