Re: FVWM: Re: system wide system.fvwm2rc under Red Hat Linux

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.bellcore.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 19:13:57 -0500

Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Here is how one can implement a custom wide system.fvwm2rc file without
> having to put dotfiles in a user's home directory. The following only
> applies to users starting fvwm2 under a Red Hat Linux 5.0 system (or above).
> It will work for both users starting Fvwm2 with xinit (aka startx) in runleve
> l
> 3 as well as for users starting Fvwm2 with xdm in runlevel 5.
> The runlevel is determined by the first uncommented line of the /etc/inittab
> file:
>
> ----- begin /etc/inittab snippet --------------------------------------------
> -
> #
> # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
> # the system in a certain run-level.
> #
> # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels_at_drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
> #
>
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> # 1 - Single user mode
> # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
> # 3 - Full multiuser mode
> # 4 - unused
> # 5 - X11
> # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> #id:3:initdefault:
> id:5:initdefault:
> ----- end /etc/inittab snippet ----------------------------------------------
> -
>
> So, here is how you do it:
>
> Step 1)
>
> Place your new configuration file under /etc/X11/fvwm2 as:
>
> /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc
>
> Step 2)
>
> mv /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.old
>
> Step 3)
>
> Use the following file as the new /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file snipping
> the parts containing dashes (-).
>
> ----- begin /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ########################################################################
> # -*- sh -*- #
> # #
> # ~/.Xclients: used by startx (xinit) to start up a window manager and #
> # any other clients you always want to start an X session with. #
> # #
> # feel free to edit this file to suit your needs. #
> ########################################################################
>
> exec fvwm2 -f /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc
>
> ----- end /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients --------------------------------------
>
> Step 4)
>
> If this still doesn't work then it may be because you may have a
>
> ".wm_config" file in your home directory. Delete it and try again.
>
> Step 5)
>
> Reboot your system and good luck!!!

Neil,

  I'm glad this solved your problem.

  This does seem to be a fairly complicated solution to something thats
pretty straight forward with fvwm2 as I know it.

  Using fvwm 2.1.x installed with a prefix of /usr/local, if fvwm2 is
started with no arguments at all, fvwm2 will first attempt to read
$HOME/.fvwm2rc. If that file is not found, it will then attempt
to read /usr/local/etc/.fvwm2rc.

  The "etc" part is the "sysconfdir" that you can set as you like at
configure time.

  So if you don't want each user to have to create his own .fvwm2rc
file, I believe the simplest answer is, just put the .fvwm2rc file
in "sysconfdir".

  Sorry I couldn't get it together to answer this question before now,
but I am just recovering from the flu. (What a lousy way to spend the
holidays.)

> Best Regards,
>
> Neil
> --

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