"Thomas A. Gardiner" <gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu> writes:
> Now one last demonstration of my ignorance.
>
> What does this mean?
>
> PipeRead cmd option
> Causes fvwm to read commands output from the pro-
> gram named cmd. Useful for building up dynamic
> menu entries based on a directories contents, for
> example.
>
> So this caused fvwm2 to read the result of the echo command and do nothing
> with it?
Yes.
The echo caused HOME/USER_WM_STYLE to be created.
Since it didn't write anything to stdout, the command fvwm read
was blank. Fvwm ignores blank commands.
> PipeRead "echo $0 > HOME/USER_WM_STYLE"
The reason to use PipeRead instead of Exec is that fvwm is waiting for
the command results before proceeding.
> Tom
>
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Received on Fri Jan 14 2000 - 19:12:33 GMT