FVWM: FvwmCpp, quotes and .fvwmrc.

From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes_at_inria.fr>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:50:21 +0100

I tried recently to use FvwmCpp to process my .fvwmrc (I didnot want
m4 because of the 'include' mess).
 
 - First problem, I could not get FvwmCpp to work at all. I guess I
did not use the good options, and would be pleased if someone told me
what to do...

So, what I have done now is to convert my .fvwmrc to use cpp, which is
applied manually each time I make a change :-( Nevertheless, I had
several problems:

 - the use of # as a comment delimiter for fvwm conflicts with cpp. I
had to insert a space in front of the comments, which is not very
nice. I'd like to see an alternate comment delimiter in fvwm.

 - Since I use a sun, all the references to pixmap xterm-sun.xpm has
been replaced with xterm-1.xpm :-( No problem, I thought, I've just to
enclose the pixmap name in quotes. This does *not* work! This is
contradictory with the man page of fvwm which basically says that
quotes can be used anywhere.

 - And, finally, something that I've already written (but since I had
no echo, I could perhpas repeat it): I'd like to have the default
ModulePath hardcoded in fvwm, in order to use 'fvwm -f' in a simple
manner (It should be easy, since this info is known to the Imakefile).

Jean-Marc.

PS: On a related subject, does somebody knows of a clever way to use
cpp on the .Xdefaults file transparently?
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Received on Tue Oct 17 1995 - 08:50:32 BST

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