Re: FVWM: Wierdness with FvwmCpp

From: Paul D. Smith <psmith_at_BayNetworks.COM>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 13:24:57 EST

%% Regarding FVWM: Wierdness with FvwmCpp; you wrote:

  lpw> fvwm2 -f "FvwmCpp .fvwm2rc" -display :0 $HOME/.FVWM2-errors 2>&1

This is wrong.

  lpw> The junk in the error messages looks suspiciously like the start of
  lpw> FvwmCpp itself.

  lpw> Any answers, or any hints?

You're exactly right, it _is_ the start of FvwmCpp.

>From the fvwm2(1) man page:

     -f config_file
          Causes fvwm to Read config_file instead of ".fvwm2rc" as its ini-
          tialization file. This is equivalent to -cmd "Read config_file".

So, you're giving fvwm2 a config file of "FvwmCpp", which is a binary.
Surprising that it finds it, actually :). The right way to do this,
again from the fvwm2 man page, is:

  M4 PREPROCESSING
       M4 pre-processing is handled by a module in fvwm-2.0. To get more
       details, try man FvwmM4. In short, if you want fvwm to parse your
       files with m4, then replace the word "Read" with "FvwmM4" in your
       .fvwm2rc file (if it appears at all), and start fvwm2 with the command

            fvwm2 -cmd "FvwmM4 .fvwm2rc"
------------------^^^^

  CPP PREPROCESSING
       Cpp is the C-language pre-processor. fvwm-2.0 offers cpp processing
       which mirrors the m4 pre-processing. To find out about it, re-read
       the M4 section above, but replace "m4" with "cpp".

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