This is the standard behavior for fvwm2. It is how it works on my
installation. Are you sure that it does not work that way on yours? Do
you have the default .fvwm2rc file in the right place? It should be in
the same directory as the modules.
Chad
Excerpts from lists.FVWM: 17-Jan-96 FVWM: Reading .fvwm2rc The Dark
Dragon_at_eos.ncsu (1822*)
> I am afraid I must be missing something here. I am trying to compile
> fvwm2 so that it will read a users .fvwm2rc if it exists, and if not read
> the system default. (in this case, /afs/eos/contrib/wm/lib/system.fvwm2rc)
> I have tried many different settings for FVWMRC in configure.h and have
> yet to stumble upon the correct way to go about this. I honestly can't
> believe that this feature wouldn't be in there somewhere. I'm afraid I
> am at the end of my rope here. Looking over the man page, I noticed that
> =perhaps= the way to go about it is with the read command, yet.. for
> this to be effective, I would need to be able to detect if the .fvwm2rc
> existed and if it did, read it and exit, otherwise continue on. (in the
> system.fvwm2rc) I can not see a way to go about this. Maybe I'm just
> tired and looking right over it, but I've been sitting here all day
> looking at it and I'm just getting very frustrated. I would greatly
> appreciate it if someone would tell me what I need to do. I could go in
> and hack the source code, but I really would rather not.
> Thanks for your time,
> Daniel
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