>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
Kai> With Fvwm you can put menu definitions in a file, then read
Kai> that file at run time to have these take effect. So, you
Kai> write a shell script that does:
Kai> echo AddToMenu Bla \"Item\" Exec xterm >>
Kai> ~/.fvwm/foo-menu
Kai> And you can do
Kai> Read ~/.fvwm/foo-menu
Kai> from a menu or a keybinding. This seems to be
Kai> Turing-complete. Can tvtwm do better than this?
"He" says that tvtwm does a fstat() on a 'menu file', and if it has
changed, the new version is read without the need to push a button. I
must admit it is more elegant....
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Received on Fri Apr 12 1996 - 10:22:51 BST