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SuSEconfig
to configure the system. This in turn calls
/usr/X11R6/bin/SuSEconfig.fvwm
which (re)generates the system
wide configuration file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc for
the fvwm2 window manager.
Only packages that are installed receive a menu entry.
Of course we know that the user might want to create his/her own
.fvwm2rc
without unwanted program entries.
By installing an .fvwm2rc
file in his/her HOME directory the user
can make sure that this one is read instead of the system-wide one.
SuSEconfig.fvwm
can not recognize this file anymore. Of course
the user can not benefit from SuSEconfig.fvwm
's possibilities by
creating an own file.
There is a solution available in the submenu entries "Window manager" and "Configuration" of "Work menu".
Here the user him/herself can create an own .fvwm2rc
. Any
previous existing versions are backuped (always the last version).
Further more a script checks, whether differences do exist between the
files (system-wide and private .fvwm2rc
). If so, they are
integrated into a new-generated, current .fvwm2rc
which again
becomes the user's .fvwm2rc
.
So far this works perfectly, well not quite, there is one (logical) sticking
point:
When the user decides to remove an entry and deletes it and at the same time
reinstalls the accessory package, then the script does not recognize the
changes anymore.
The base files for the system-wide configuration
.fvwm2rc
are located in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/susefvwm/lib
. The syntax of the used
m4 macro is shortly described in the header of the file
menus.fvwm
or in the documents in
/usr/doc/packages/susefvwm
.
After having changed those files it is required to invoke
SuSEconfig.fvwm
, as well as a restart of the window manager
From S.u.S.E. Linux 4.3 on
susefvwm
's successor, susewm
, is used, whose
syntax is described in our manual. Basically it is closely
related to the procedure described above.
Feedback welcome: Send Mail to smaddin@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-fvwm2rc
)
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