On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:31:22PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote
> its own man page (man FvwmButtons etc.). Lines beginning with an
> asterisk '*' are not handled by fvwm itself but are sent to any
> module with the proper name:
>
> *FvwmButtons: Geometry ...
>
> is sent to modules with the name "FvwmButtons".
>
> *Inline: foobar
>
> is sent to modules with the name "Inline". Since all modules
> coming with fvwm begin with "Fvwm" this is either a module
> written by someone else (you can even write a shell script as a
> module) or it is a module using an alias. Some of the modules
> allow to be started with a different name, e.g. FvwmButtons:
>
> *OtherButtons: ...
> ...
> Module FvwmButtons OtherButtons
>
> This way you can have multiple instances of the same module using
> different configuretions, but it still parses the options
> described in the module's man page.
Let's see if I understand this. The directive...
> *FvwmButtons: (2x3, Frame 0, Swallow(UseOld,NoHints) "Inline" "Module FvwmPager Inline 0 0")
Starts up an instance of Fvwmpager, using alias name "Inline", and
then swallows it. So the following lines...
> DestroyModuleConfig Inline: *
> *Inline: Balloons
> *Inline: Font none
> *Inline: Rows 1
> *Inline: Columns 1
...are actually referring to that instance of FvwmPager. Sounds logical.
Thanks for the explanation. The linkage wasn't obvious to me, which is
why I asked that question. Your answer got me to search for the word
"alias" in the fvwm2 man page, which gave the necessary details.
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