FVWMCONSOLE(1)

✨ FVWMCONSOLE(1) ✨ 💖 Fvwm Modules 💖

Okay bestie, this is the manual page for FvwmConsole, an fvwm command input interface 🎀. Manual section 1, Fvwm Modules, it's giving pure main character energy 💅.

🌸 NAME 🌸

FvwmConsole is an fvwm command input interface. It's basically a little typing box for fvwm commands 🦋.

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

Module FvwmConsole [options]

Okay so FvwmConsole can ONLY be invoked by fvwm 💀. Running it from the command line will not work, no cap 🙈.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

FvwmConsole lets you type fvwm configuration commands interactively and have them executed immediately ⭐. It's honestly so useful for testing new configuration ideas, or for making temporary changes to your environment 🫶.

🦋 INVOCATION 🦋

FvwmConsole has to be spawned as a module by fvwm 👑. It takes all xterm(1) options, iykyk 💖.

You can invoke it by putting the line Module FvwmConsole in your .fvwm2rc file ✨. Put it on a line by itself if you want it spawned during fvwm's initialization, or bind it to a menu, mouse button, or keystroke so it shows up later 🎀.

🎀 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🎀

FvwmConsole uses xterm(1) 🌈. All resources set for xterm get inherited, unless you override them with command line options 💅.

Module FvwmConsole -g 40x10 -fg black -bg green3

You can pick a different terminal emulator with the -terminal option ✨. Only terminal programs that understand -name, -title and -e will work though, so choose wisely 🫶.

Debian specific: the hardcoded xterm is changed to x-terminal-emulator. To be policy compliant, the -name option is removed from the default options, and -title is changed to -T 💀.

Module FvwmConsole -terminal rxvt

Older versions of FvwmConsole supported a -e option to pick a different front-end 🍓. It's still provided for backwards compatibility, but its use is discouraged unless you know exactly what you are doing 🙈.

You can also set X resources in your ~/.Xdefaults file 🌸:

FvwmConsole*VT100*geometry: 40x4 +
FvwmConsole*font: 7x14

Debian specific: since -name isn't included by default, the default resource gets set by the x-terminal-emulator you're using, not FvwmConsole. You can change the resource to match your terminal, or, if your terminal supports it, run FvwmConsole with the -name option 🔥:

Module FvwmConsole -name FvwmConsole

🍓 COMMAND EDITING 🍓

If the GNU readline library is available, it can be used 💖. Otherwise you get a simple input reading function with no editing capabilities 💀. For more details, check the GNU readline man and info pages 🧚.

Here are the keys (ngl, these are so handy 😭):

• Ctrl-A — jump to the beginning of the line ✨
• Ctrl-B — previous char 🦋
• Ctrl-D — delete char 💅
• Ctrl-E — jump to the end of the line 🌈
• Ctrl-F — next char 🫶
• Ctrl-H — backspace 🙈
• Ctrl-K — erase to the end of the line 💀
• Ctrl-N — next line 🌸
• Ctrl-P — previous line 💜
• Ctrl-R — search reverse 🔥
• Ctrl-U — delete the whole line 👑
• Meta-B — previous word ⭐
• Meta-F — next word 🎀
• Esc < — beginning of history 🧚
• Esc > — end of history 💖

🚪 EXITING 🚪

To stop FvwmConsole, enter the EOF character, which is usually CTRL-D 💅.

Note! Do NOT use the quit command, bestie. It's an fvwm builtin, so typing quit at the FvwmConsole command line will make fvwm exit 💀😭.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

xterm(1), GNU Readline library 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

FvwmConsole is the original work of Toshi Isogai 🌸✨.

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Bestie, that's the whole page 💖. It's from the Fvwm Modules section, dated 2025-12-20, so you're all caught up 🎀🦋 periodt!