Re: FVWM: Global fvwm configuration

From: Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer_at_mch.sni.de>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:14:45 +0200 (MET DST)

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote...
> There could be two files that fvwm searches for:
>
> - global.fvwmrc, which is always read if it exists
> - default.fvwmrc, which is read if the user does not have a .fvwmrc
>
> The sysadmin could choose which files he provides for the users.

Or even easier: using a new directive
    ConfigPath: $HOME:/usr/lib/X11/fvwm2
, a "combined" system.fvwm2rc could consist of
    .... a lot of defaults .... and as the last line:
    Read ".fvwm2rc" # either ~/.fvwm2rc or /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc
which would include either the user's config files or the system
equivalents.

Or, using the Pipe mechanism I saw on this list earlier on (and which I
think would be _very_ useful to include as a standard feature), one
could easily write
    Read "| [ -f $HOME/.fvwm2rc ] && cat $HOME/.fvwm2rc || cat /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc"

Or a combination of both methods could be chosen.

Just a thought.

    Martin
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