Brand Hilton <bhilton_at_adc.com> writes:
> I hope this is a simple question, but my efforts to answer it have
> been fruitless so far.
>
> I just got a second monitor on my Sun. I understand that there is a
> separate fvwm managing each monitor. No problem. However, what I
> want to do is run a slightly different .fvwmrc in each of these
> processes, and I can't figure out how to do it.
>
> A simple if-then-else construct in the config file would solve my
> problems. I could just key off the $DISPLAY environment variable.
> Alternatively, if I could find a way to use $DISPLAY as part of the
> filename in a Read command (like "Read .fvwmrc$DISPLAY" or something),
> that would work, too. But, no luck.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
In general, to get conditional processing in your config file,
you would use the FvwmCPP or FvwmM4 modules. The PipeRead command
may help, or fvwm2 can be invoked with command line args, like:
fvwm2 -f .fvwmrc$DISPLAY
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Received on Thu May 20 1999 - 19:25:35 BST