Hi,
There was a program similar to what you are asking for in RedHat's 6.x
series, but it appears to have been droped. It was called wmconfig and
used to search /etc/X11/wmconfig. It also appears as if the program has
been updated (slightly) without the man page being updated since I no
longer have the directory /etc/X11/wmconfig, and yet it still works for
me (kind of...)
My memory may be fading right now, but I seem to remember a script
with a similar functionality to this in a previous dist. of fvwm2, but it
doesn't appear to be included in the version of fvwm2 I'm using at the
moment... Does this ring a bell with anyone?
$ rpm -q fvwm2
fvwm2-2.2.4-9
Hope this helps,
Tom
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Before re-inventing the wheel, I wanted to check whether someone's
> already done this. Gnome and KDE apps seem to have an associated
> *.desktop file, sort of like a Windows .PIF file. If you execute
> "find / -name *.desktop > x" you'll end up with a whole bunch of files
> in the list. One example is the serviceconf.desktop file
>
> [root_at_localhost root]# cat /etc/X11/applnk/System/serviceconf.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Service Configuration
> Name[ja]=............
> Comment=Configure which services will be running when the system starts
> Comment[ja]=..........................................................
> Icon=serviceconf.xpm
> Exec=/usr/bin/serviceconf
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
>
> The "Exec=" gives the name of the executable. Type the command
> /usr/bin/serviceconf from a terminal in an X window, and serviceconf
> comes up (asking for root password). Answer, and it runs. What would
> be *REALLY* nice would be a script to list off the files, and parse
> them for "Name=", "Icon=", and "Exec=", and then piperead commands to
> build a menu on-the-fly.
>
> Oh... hello everybody. I've been using FVWM2 for awhile, but I'm
> still not very much past the newbie stage with it. I'm running Redhat
> 7.2 on a 450 mhz Dell with 128 megs of RAM. The latest versions of KDE
> and Gnome find this a bit underpowered, and 7.1 wasn't much better.
> That was what pushed me to FVWM2. A pleasant side-effect is the ability
> to customize my desktop. I've got a minimalist approach with
> FvwmIconMan on the bottom left and a modified FvwmButtons on the bottom
> right, and a custom menu that pops up when I hit {ALT-F10}.
>
>
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas A. Gardiner Phone: (1) 716 - 273 - 2429
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Fax: (1) 716 - 273 - 1014
Univ. of Rochester gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu
Rochester, NY 14627-0171 http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~gardiner/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it
because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature
were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.- Henri Poincare
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Thu Jan 03 2002 - 12:55:13 GMT