Re: FVWM: Preprocessing .fvwmrc with FvwmCpp

From: Charles Hines <>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:40:35 -0500

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Thurlbeck <ian_at_stams.strath.ac.uk> writes:

Ian> Hi

Ian> I want to write a .fvwmrc which provides a slightly
Ian> different setup on our Decs/Suns/SunMono's. I thought I'd
Ian> get FvwmCpp to run over it and I check for the various
Ian> defines it produces (COLOR, SERVERHOST, etc).

Ian> It seems I have to start fvwm with an invocation something like:

Ian> % fvwm -f "FvwmCpp /home/ian/.fvwmrc"

Ian> to process the file, and I also have to modify the fvwm code to
Ian> accept a ';' as a comment instead of the '#', since cpp barfs
Ian> on all the fvwm '#' comments.

Ian> This seems a bit laborious - how does everyone else do it ??

I know a few people out there use FvwmCpp. I don't use any
preprocessor myself, so perhaps I'm not as qualified to answer, but
let me provide 2 suggestions:

1) you could probably just start it normally, but have your .fvwmrc
   contain only one line:

   FvwmCpp /home/ian/.fvwmrc-cpp

2) Use C style comments instead of altering the fvwm code to use ';'.
   Much easier - cpp will take care of them for you.

Chuck

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