Re: FVWM: FvwmPerl preprocessing

From: <romildo_at_uber.com.br>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:58:22 -0300

I forget to tell I am running Fvwm 2.5.7 on Gentoo Linux.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:41:57PM -0300, romildo_at_uber.com.br wrote:
> I am looking for a way of doing arithmetic in the configuration
> file of Fvwm, in order to position windows in the task bar I am
> trying to setup.
>
> Searching old messages, I have found an indication that the
> FvwmPerl module could do what I want. It had been suggested to do
> put the following in the configuration file:
>
> ==========================================================
> AddToFunc StartFunction
> + I Module FvwmPerl
>
> DestroyFunc .
> AddToFunc .
> + I SendToModule FvwmPerl preprocess -c -- $*
> ==========================================================
>
> The . function would preprocess its argument prior
> to delivering it to Fvwm.
>
> When I try the following
>
> . Echo %{ $[vp.width] - 100 }%
>
> in FvwmConsolde, it does work and I get
>
> [FVWM][Echo]: 1300
>
> as the output.
>
> But if I put that command in my configuration file, it
> does not work when I restart Fvwm.
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Prof. José Romildo Malaquias        romildo_at_uber.com.br
Departamento de Computação       malaquias_at_iceb.ufop.br
Univ. Federal de Ouro Preto  http://uber.com.br/romildo
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