Re: FVWM: fvwm 2.0.41 and system.fvwmrc

From: Charles Hines <>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:59:30 -0500

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

>>>>> On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:44:42 -0700, don_at_cs.byu.edu said:
Don> I installed fvwm 2.0.41 and while playing with the
Don> configuration I found that while it works fine on the user's
Don> .fvwm2rc, it would not load the system-wide configuration if
Don> there was no user's .fvwm2rc.

Kai> It's a know {misfeature,feature,bug} of Fvwm2 that it doesn't read
Kai> system.fvwmrc.

Actually, it does look for the file in the system area though. It
just doesn't look for the file with the word 'system' in front of it.

Here is the search method:

  $HOME/.fvwm2rc
  FvwmDir/.fvwm2rc

where FvwmDir is specified in the Fvwm.tmpl file.

Chuck
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Received on Tue Mar 19 1996 - 08:59:51 GMT

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