Re: FVWM: Loading a fvwm2rc.$HOST

From: Cameron Simpson <cs_at_zip.com.au>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:05:27 +1100

On 22:54 04 Jan 2003, Johan Svedberg <winkle_at_acc.umu.se> wrote:
| I'm wondering if there is a way to accomplish this from my fvwm2rc or do
| I have to use some kind of shellwrapper like:
|
| export HOST=`uname -n | cut -d . -f 1`
|
| if [ -e ~/lib/fvwm2rc.\$HOST/fvwm2rc.$HOST ]; then
| . ~/lib/fvwm2rc.\$HOST/fvwm2rc.$HOST
| fi
|
| I want to add diffrent configurations to my default one depending on
| which machine I'm on. I'm aware of that I can use the source command,
| but I would like to test if there actually is a file to be sourced
| aswell.

Well, I invoke fvwm like this:

        fvwm -cmd "PipeRead fvwmrc"

and fvwmrc is a shell script to emit an fvwm rc file on stdout.
Perhaps you may want to adopt this approach, or some obvious variant?
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Received on Sat Jan 04 2003 - 18:06:47 GMT

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