On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Stephen Carville wrote:
->Is there any way to define a variable in the .fvwm2rc file that can be
->expanded at run time? Something like the #define directive in C? I
->would like to put in a line something like:
->
->#define START_ICON mini-x.xpm
->
->And have START_ICON replaced with mini-x.xpm every time it is
->encountered. This way I could define an icon once and have it used
->everytime. It would make changing the icon for a particular program
->much simpler too.
->
You should investigate the preprocessing modules FvwmCpp and FvwmM4.
But I don't see that this saves you much effortexcept in changing to a
better icon than mini-x.xpm for a group of programs. For a single
program it's much the same having to write START_ICON each time.
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Received on Wed Sep 10 1997 - 22:26:03 BST