FVWM: Re: How do I know what desktop I'm On ???

From: <proteus_at_pcnet.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 10:10:19

>>>>> Kai Grossjohann schreibt:

      Kai> Now, how do you send those Style commands to Fvwm from
      Kai> a shell script?

    Do you really want to do that? I normally do one of the following
to change Style settings on the fly.

    If I get a sudden notion to make some ad hoc change, I just use
FvwmTalk to send the appropriate command to fvwm.

    If it's something that I do quite often, then I define functions and/or
menu items in my .fvwmrc. Something like

      AddToFunc XtermOnDesk3 Nop
      + "I" Style "xterm" StartsOnDesk 3
      + "I" Exec xterm -[my favorite xterm opts]
      + "I" Style "xterm" StartsAnyWhere

would do the trick, with maybe a menu item like

      AddToMenu Some-Misc-Stuff "Some Miscellaneous Stuff" Title
      + "Start Special Xterm on Desk 3" XtermOnDesk3

Note that once you've defined a function, you can invoke it on the fly
just like any built-in fvwm function. So you could just say "XtermOnDesk3"
via FvwmTalk.

    Hope this helps. If you really, really, really, really need to send fvwm
commands from a script, you may need to look at doing a hack of FvwmTalk
to catch your script's stdout.

        Cheers,
        Bob
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Received on Thu Dec 12 1996 - 13:13:39 GMT

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