Re: FVWM: FVWM and Gnome Panel

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:08:28 -0400

Subba Rao <subba9_at_home.com> writes:
> On 0, Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Another question related to FVWM + GNOME is, how to execute the FVWM "Qui
> t"
> > > function from the GNOME Panel ("Log Out")?
> >
> > Fvwm commands can be issued via the command line. To do this,
> > make sure the FvwmCommandS module is started, e.g. from the
> > StartFunction:
> >
> > AddToFunc StartFunction
> > + I Module FvwmCommandS
> >
> > After that, fvwm commands can be issues from a shell:
> >
> > $ FvwmCommand "Quit"
> >
>
> I have done this but I get the following error message.
>
> subba9_at_myhost:~$ FvwmCommand "Quit"
> No such file or directory FvwmCommand error in opening message fifo
> subba9_at_myhost:~$

FvwmCommand does this when it can't communicate with
FvwmCommandS.

using "ps" check to see if FvwmCommandS is running.
Look for errors coming from fvwm.

Did you restart fvwm after you added FvwmCommandS to your .fvwm2rc?

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Received on Fri Aug 31 2001 - 14:12:42 BST

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