On 04 Aug 2000 09:34:01 -0400, Thomas A. Gardiner wrote:
>
> Simple question. I've been using fvwm for some time now but
> always the latest stable release. I thought I might try living a little
> more on the edge and use some of the beta code to explore some of the
> theme work and new features which are being put into fvwm. Any
> suggestions on:
>
> 1) Themes? I've been using a hacked AnotherLevel m4 configuration. How
> far has the themes work progressed?
"How far" depends on what you expect to have at the end, maybe it already
has everything you need. You are welcome to try and comment.
> 2) New features, etc. Am I reading the man pages like a book to find out
> what's new or is something else written up?
There is a NEWS file containing all new features and changes.
> 3) Suggestion on which release to try and why? How to get it? etc?
>
> One more question. Has there been any thought of including some scripting
> abilities into the .fvwm2rc files such as a simple include, or has it been
> decided to leave this sort of thing to m4 or cpp pre-processing?
Yes and no. There are several preprocessings in rc file, mainly expending
special variables, like $n, $d in certain contexts, environment variables
$[USER] and more. And PipeRead command provides shell scripting abilities.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sat Aug 05 2000 - 05:06:41 BST