On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Thomas A. Gardiner wrote:
> 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...)
It was still in RH 7.1, which I'm running (I'm sure because a submenu of
my root menu uses it.)
But the script reads a directory structure in /etc/X11/applnk/ (and
perhaps /etc/X11/wmconfig, if that's present, I can experiment some more
if need be.)
>
> 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
>
>
//Marcus
>
>
> 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}.
> >
> >
>
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