I'm trying to figure out something for my laptop. It has two
environments: One is hooked to the home network, where it has a ready
source of power, access to nfs directories on two desktops, and can
serve vnc to those machines. The other is as a standalone, sometimes
with a wireless hook to the internet, on battery, and only the internal
hard drive.
The application would go a lot more smoothly with two completely
separate fvwm sessions, since many of the menu choices for one won't
work with the other.
My config file is ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc (I know, I'm going to change it RSN).
It is nothing but a series of a half-dozen Read statements, accessing a
set of subdirectories, each with files consisting of one menu's worth of
statements. This very distributed structure is great for keeping track
of things. I copied the entire ~/.fvwm directory from one of my
desktops, and it will serve as a basis of the two sessions I'm creating.
The "docked" session will require few changes, since nearly everything
available to the desktops is available to the laptop in this mode.
I copied the directory again to ~/.fvwmundocked, which I intend to
modify for standalone use. My startx wrapper looks something like this:
#!/bin/sh
# NETlock is the file my startup script creates when I'm hooked to my
# home network
if [ -e /etc/NETlock ] ;then
FVWM_USERDIR=/home/timh/.fvwm
export FVWM_USERDIR
startx fvwm2
else
FVWM_USERDIR=/home/timh/.fvwmundocked
export FVWM_USERDIR
startx fvwm2 -c ~/.fvwmundocked/.fvwm2rc
fi
It seems like that should take care of it, but all
my Read statements fail because they are in ~/.fvwmundocked.
Do I need to set something else?
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Received on Sun Mar 20 2005 - 22:42:48 GMT