Re: FVWM: Argument Passing?

From: Thomas A. Gardiner <gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:44:17 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Dan Espen wrote:

>Does the "-cmd" or "-f" argument to fvwm help? (First read the theme file,
>have the theme file read the .fvwm2rc.)
>
>Or you could export an environment variable and use it in a Read command.

I'm afraid I don't see how I could easily make use of these commands to
get the behavior I want. The .fvwm2rc file is constructed with m4
preprocessing and the decor or theme is included at that level. Since
some of the style commands are order specific it could be a real
programming chore to extract out the decor which is mostly localized, but
has fingers into other parts...

Essentially for the m4 package to work I need to have the name of the
desired decor in the file $HOME/.wm_style. The question is how to get the
name there. Either pass it to a script which echo's it to the file and
does the restart or put it there and then do the restart from fvwm2 (in
that order).

>
>Or you could export an environment variable and use it in a Read command.

This looks like it should work but again the menu item chosen would need
to do two things, set an environment variable and restart fvwm. If I
could make this work I couls also make other things work.

For example, in bash (and most other shells ) I can do composite commands
like cd /foo/bar ; echo hi > there ; cat there

Is it possible to use the Restart function to do this

Restart echo FvwmFoo > $HOME/.wm_style ; exec $HOME/RunWM

This would be ideal.

Tom


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Received on Fri Jan 14 2000 - 12:46:58 GMT

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