FVWM: Help with FvwmM4

From: Craig A. Lemon <calemon_at_uplink.on.ca>
Date: 7 Oct 1997 08:48:16 -0400

        Hi all. I'm interested in using FvwmM4 (I think) but am having a
little trouble getting it to fly. I can't say that I'm an M4 expert, but I
have used it in the past. My trouble is not specific, but quite general, I
don't know how to go about doing what I want. I use a large number of
nearly identical functions in my menus and buttons and I'd like to use
a tool like M4 to generate it for me. Any URLs to additional FvwmM4
documentation and/or examples would be great. Another catch is that I use
similar, but not quite identical setups on about 4 completely
independent systems. There's a little more info in the next paragraph should
you wish to read more about what I want to do.

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	For starters I have a large tiered menu system with many different
types of systems in it.  I have certain window characteristics based on
whether it's a router, server or general purpose machine.  I wish to be
able to put all of these in macros :
router(a.b, a.b.me.net)
	which could expand to a menu item:
+ "a.b" exec xterm -sb -sl 1000 -j -ls -n a.b -T a.b -bg DarkSeaGreen 
	-e telnet a.b.me.net
	Other systems would have other requirements, for instance :
system(a.b, a.b, u_at_a.b, a.b.me.net, 80x40)
+ "a.b" exec xterm -sb -sl 1000 -j -ls -n a.b -T u_at_a.b -bg Purple -geom 80x40
	-e ssh a.b.me.net
	...or whatever.
	I might even have xterm() be a macro:
xterm() = xterm -sb -sl 1000 -j -ls 
	then I only make changes in one place and common changes are easy
to rdist to the different machines I'm on.
	Thanks for any help offered.
-- 
 Craig A. Lemon    VE3XCL       | University of Waterloo
   calemon_at_uplink.on.ca		| Electrical Engineering
   http://www.net/~calemon/	|     Class of 1997
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Received on Tue Oct 07 1997 - 12:59:55 BST