Re: FVWM: hard question: fvwm2 and Red Hat (5.0 and above)

From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 17:48:10 -0800 (PST)

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Dan Espen wrote:
> To my knowledge, fvwm2 does not attempt to read a file named
> "system.fvwm2rc".

This is what the fvwm 2.0.46 comes as part of redhat 5.2 tries to do on
startup:

open(".fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
open("/home/xyzzy/.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
open("system.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
open("/home/xyzzy/system.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY) = 5

So it looks in the current dir, $HOME, and the sysconfdir, first for .fvwm2rc
and then for system.fvwm2rc.

This is what fvwm 2.1.6 does with no paticular options used at configure time:

open(".fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT
open("/home/xyzzy/.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT
open("/usr/local/etc/.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT
open("system.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT
open("/home/xyzzy/system.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT
open("/usr/local/etc/system.fvwm2rc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = -1 ENOENT

So basiclly the same thing, except the sysconfdir has changed from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2 to /usr/local/etc

I seem to remember the system config going in X11 lib directory from way back,
pre-fvwm2, so the move to etc is probably a recent change.

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Received on Sat Jan 02 1999 - 19:25:23 GMT