Re: FVWM: FvwmPerl problem

From: Scott McWhirter <scott_at_xede.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:50:40 +0000

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:25:49AM -0600, Shay Hill wrote:
> version 2.5.8
>
> I have written a working perl script to read colors from my .fvwm2rc
> file and build appropriately colored icons. The script *works* from the
> command line, but fails when called from .fvwm2rc. with
> FvwmPerl load create-icons.fpl
>
> Here is a minimal version of my perl script. There are some lines
> commented out. The script works, but is of course useless, without these
> lines. With these lines, the output file fails to open when called from
> .fvwm2rc.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> open(FVWM, "/home/shay/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc");
> undef $/;
> $_ = <FVWM>;
> close FVWM;
> # /SetEnv FGColor "(.*[^"])"\n/g;
> # $FGC = $1;
> open(OUT, ">/home/shay/.fvwm/iconify.xpm");
> print OUT "\". c $FGC\",\n";
> close OUT;

This doesn't appear to do anything useful what so ever, in fact i'd be
surprised if it ever passed perl syntax check.
  `perl -cw script.pl`

Contact me off-list with information on what you need to achieve and
i'll try to help ye out.


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Received on Mon Jan 19 2004 - 13:52:47 GMT

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