Re: FVWM: Global fvwm configuration

From: Lars Wirzenius <liw_at_iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 19:06:32 +0300

Carlos Carreras:
> I am the manager of a few workstations and I would like to provide a basic
> fvwm configuration file for all the users in my network. My interest is in
> maintaining a menu structure which is updated everytime a new application is
> installed so it can be accessed from the workspace menu by everyone. Besides,
> each user should be able to configure his fvwm with his $HOME/.fvwm2rc.

I've been working on a setup for this also.

> - If there is a $HOME/.fvwm2rc, no other configuration file seems to be read
> during configuration.

Fvwm should still read the system.fvwmrc, at least it does for me.

> - If there is no $HOME/.fvwm2rc, I can't find where the default configuratio
> n
> should reside to be read by fvwm2.

On my system it is /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwmrc, but the directory can be
set to anything when fvwm is configured. In fvwm 2.0.42, at least, the
location is configured in Fvwm.tmpl.

I put my first attempt at the scripts in
http://www.iki.fi/liw/misc/fvwm2config-0.1.tar.gz and
http://www.iki.fi/liw/misc/fvwm2debian-0.1.tar.gz. The first is a
user-extensible system.fvwmrc replacement, that doesn't require every
user to have a .fvwm2rc, and the second is a set of tools for Debian Linux
that maintain a menu structure.


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Received on Tue May 28 1996 - 11:43:24 BST

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