Just for closure, I wanted to share what I found. As I said
in my original post, I had changed from RH9 to debian at the
same time that I upgraded fvwm. Under RH9 I had disabled the
graphical login screen and just ran a "startx" script once I
logged in (I forget why I had set it up that way). On debian
I had left the graphical login screen (gdm) enabled, and thus
X was being started from somewhere other than my userid, thus
my shell was not being run prior to starting X... thus $HOST
was not setup to any value. I have not found a way to get gdm
to set env vars and use an .Xdefaults, but I have disabled
gdm and now manually start X and fvwm and everything works.
JimK
Scott Smedley wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>
>>I have upgraded from 2.4.17 to 2.5.12. In 2.4.17
>>I was able to use env variables directly in .fvwmrc,
>>for example:
>>
>>*FvwmButtons: (Frame 2, Title $[HOST], Icon xterm.xpm, Action Exec
>>"$[HOST]" exec /usr/bin/X11/xterm -geometry 80x60 -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn
>>6x13 -T $HOST -n $HOST &)
>>read ConfigFvwmButtons.$[HOST]
>
>
> I suspect your problem is that you do not have a HOST _environment_
> variable. On my system, HOST is a local _shell_ variable, & (by definition)
> not inherited by child processes.
>
> To see if HOST was an environment variable or merely a shell
> variable I did this:
>
> env | /bin/grep -a ^HOST=
> set | /bin/grep -a ^HOST=
>
> I added this line to my ~/.zshenv file:
>
> export HOSTNAME=${$(uname -n)%%.*}
>
> & used $[HOSTNAME] in my .fvwm2rc file.
>
> You might need to use slightly different syntax/files if you don't use zsh.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> SCoTT. :)
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