Re: FVWM: Two questions

From: Neil Bird <neil.bird_at_rrds.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:36:55 +0100

Perttu K K Muurimaki wrote:
> I have fvwm2 running on my home-linx and now I've started to use it at the
> university too. They are running Solaris-unix with CDE-desktop
> environment. With only suprisingly few problems I got fvwm2 running on top
> of CDE, but tuning is hell. Problem: How do I tell the desktop to use it's
> functions from a menu? When I quit fvwm2 CDE remains and I have no idea
> how to launch the quit CDE session function.

  I don't know about running fvwm2 /on top of/ CDE - I'm suprised
*anything* works! I personally select 'OpenWindows' login from the CDE
login menu, and have my .xinitrc start up fvwm2 instead of olwm.


> Another (minor) thing. How can I launch an application on some random
> page, go back to do what I was doing and the application would appear on
> the page it was iniated. And I don't mean startsonpage -thing, because I'd
> like it to work on any undetermined application and page.

  Um. There may be an easy way to do this, but off the top of my head you
may have to do something tricky in a (csh/sh) script (using PipeRead)
like:

#!/bin/csh
# StartApp <pagex> <pagey> <app>

FvwmCommand 'Style "'$3'" StartsOnPage '"$1 $2"
toolwait $argv[3-]
FvwmCommand 'Style "'$3'"'

  'Cept that won't work as-is 'cos it'll clear (?) that app.'s Style
settings ...

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