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Title: fvwm2 configuration under SuSE 4.2

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fvwm2 configuration under SuSE 4.2

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: 4.2
Kernel version: irrelevant
XFree86 version: from 3.1.2E on

How to configure fvwm2 with S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2?

S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 invokes the script 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.

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Keywords: FVWM2, FVWM2RC

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