Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> Nowadays M4 preprocessing is not needed to write an ideal configuration.
> m4 is pretty limited, it may be useful for simple things, but for more
> complex needs you should write shell/perl scripts that create an fvwm
> configuration on the fly, and read their output using PipeRead.
I have used FvwmM4 to conditionally show/hide items in my TaskBar's Start menu
tree on the fly. I have often wondered if using PipeRead with a script is
"better", but I wonder if the PipeRead approach results in a greater number of
Unix processes being forked, and so might be visibly slower on a highly
CPU-bound system (as ours are). Can anyone confirm or deny?
Gregg Dameron
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Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 10:29:53 GMT