FVWM: Function to set dynamic menu title

From: Ryan Daly <daly_at_ctcnet.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:33:26 -0500

Is there an easy way to dynamically set the title of the StartMenu?

I'm trying to come up with a function to do this, but am having a bit of
trouble. Would something like the following work at all?

AddToFunc "CreateStartMenu"
  + "I" DestroyMenu StartMenu
  + "I" PipeRead 'echo `/bin/hostname -s` > $HOME/.fvwm/.hostname
  + "I" AddToMenu StartMenu `/bin/cat $HOME/.fvwm/.hostname` Title
  + "I" PipeRead `/bin/cat $HOME/.fvwm/.startmenu'
  + "I" /bin/rm $HOME/.fvwm/.hostname

.startmenu would contain the rest of my StartMenu, just so that I don't
have to type the rest of it out in the function.

This gives me a title of "/bin/cat $HOME/.fvwm/.hostname" instead of my
actual hostname. Am I using PipeRead correctly here?

Thanks.

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Received on Tue Feb 17 2004 - 18:35:41 GMT