Re: FVWM: Re: Secrets of FvwmCommand ?

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:03:33 +0100

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:16:05PM -0800, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> AHA! That's it.
>
> Suggestion for a future update: FvwmCommandS and FvwmCommand
> might check whether the home directory is NFS-mounted, and if
> so use something like /tmp/$DISPLAY/.FvwmCommand as the default
> FIFO set. (I try to avoid global places like /tmp/FvwmCommand,
> in case there might be another FVWM running on the same system,
> e.g. for an Xterminal.)
>
> In the meantime, it might be worth adding this tidbit to the
> FvwmCommand manpage or the FAQ.

In the 2.3.x betas the pipes are created in /var/tmp or in /tmp
and their name is always unique, even if there are multiple
instances of fvwm2 running.

==>
  /var/tmp $ ls -F
  FvwmCommand-DarkSun:0.0C|
  FvwmCommand-DarkSun:0.0M|

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Received on Sat Nov 18 2000 - 17:53:13 GMT

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