Hello!
Andrew "Alf" Leahy writes:
>
> We run fvwm(version 1.24r) in a DEC labs (and have been for the past 3
> years). I am finally getting around to putting fvwm2 in our labs...
> problem is how can I setup a global ".fvwmrc". With fvwm1, I could define
> a "system.fvwmrc" which was read if a users' $HOME/.fvwmrc was not found.
> fvwm2 doesn't seem to let me do this? I have tried playing with the
> Xsession script so it does something like:
>
> if ($HOME/.fvwmrc exists) then
> exec fvwm
> else
> exec fvwm -f /apps/fvwm/system.fvwmrc
> endif
>
> But I think I'm getting the syntax wrong for telling fvwm to use another
> fvwmrc file.
>
> I could certainly hardcode the location of the system.fvwmrc file, but I
> want to let student setup their own .fvwmrc if they want.
My experience with FVWM 2 is that it looks for a central file named .fvwmrc
or .fvwm2rc (depending on your compilation set-up) in the directory were the
modules are located, e.g. in your case in /apps/fvwm/ . I used a link pointing
to the place were I store our central system.fvwmrc file. To override the
central file each user just adds ~/.fvwmrc or ~/.fvwm2rc (the name depends on
the compilation set-up).
I'am running FVWM 2.0.39 on SUN Sparc Solaris 1 with Openwindows 3.0 used
as X-server and have my modules installed in /usr/openwin/lib/fvwm2 with a
link fvwm in /usr/openwin/lib/ pointing to fvwm2. I'm not 100% sure wether this
link is required or not. I don't think it's important for me to find out as
long as it works.
I hope this can be of any help to you.
Jan-Erik Borg
E-mail: jeb_at_sehaf.abb.se
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Received on Wed Mar 06 1996 - 01:37:46 GMT