Re: FVWM: Using output of external programs.

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:11:24 +0200

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:11:01PM +0200, Daniel M. wrote:
> I have a small script which receives one argument, builds menus
> and echos fvwm commands to create them. I added the following line
> to .fvwm file in order to be able to use menus created by that script:
>
> PipeRead 'menu-builder ~/.fvwm/menu'
>
> but when I try to pop up one of the created menus (executing "popup XYZ"
> from FvwmConsole), I get an error:
>
> "Menu XYZ does not exists".
>
> If I ran the script manually and copy/paste it's output into
> FvwmConsole and then try to pop up menus, it works.
>
> What can I do so that the script will work automatically
> (I want to use that script rather than the standard ones for
> menu creation)?
>
> I use fvwm 2.5.12.

It's hard to say what goes wrong without knowing the script. Can
you please post it to the list?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

 --
Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de


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