FvwmIdent(1)

💖 FvwmIdent(1) 💖

General Commands Manual 🌸 Okay bestie, this is the manual page for FvwmIdent, so let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

FvwmIdent - the FVWM identify-window module 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

Bestie, do NOT try to type this in your terminal 💀 FvwmIdent is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work.

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so the FvwmIdent module asks you to pick a target window, but only if it wasn't launched from inside a window context in Fvwm 👀 After that, it pops up a little window with info about the window you picked. Iconic behavior, honestly 💖

FvwmIdent reads the same .fvwmrc file that fvwm reads when it starts up, and it looks for lines similar to *FvwmIdentFore green 🌈

👑 COPYRIGHTS 👑

The FvwmIdent program, and the concept for interfacing this module to the Window Manager, are all original work by Robert Nation and Nobutaka Suzuki 💜 They absolutely ate with this one 🔥

Copyright 1994, Robert Nation and Nobutaka Suzuki. No guarantees or warranties or anything are provided or implied in any way whatsoever 💀 Use this program at your own risk. Permission to use this program for any purpose is given, as long as the copyright is kept intact 🫶

🌸 INITIALIZATION 🌸

During initialization, FvwmIdent will eventually search a configuration file that describes the colors and font to use. It's the same file that fvwm used during initialization, so no new file drama 🙈

If the FvwmIdent executable is linked to another name, ie ln -s FvwmIdent MoreIdentify, then another module called MoreIdentify can be started with a completely different configuration than FvwmIdent. You just change the keyword FvwmIdent to MoreIdentify 🧚 This way you can run multiple clutter-reduction programs, which is lowkey genius ✨

🧚 INVOCATION 🧚

You can invoke FvwmIdent by binding the action Module FvwmIdent to a menu or key-stroke in the .fvwmrc file 🍓 Fvwm searches the directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to find FvwmIdent.

Nothing actually stops you from launching FvwmIdent at start-up time, but bestie, you probably don't want to 😭

🔥 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 🔥

FvwmIdent reads the same .fvwmrc file that fvwm reads when it starts up, and it looks for lines like the ones below:

• *FvwmIdentFore color — Tells the module to use color instead of black for text 🌿
• *FvwmIdentBack color — Tells the module to use color instead of black for the window background 💜
• *FvwmIdentFont fontname — Tells the module to use fontname instead of fixed for text 🦋

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Robert Nation and Nobutaka Suzuki (nobuta-s@is.aist-nara.ac.jp) 💖

🌈 That's the whole tea, bestie! This page is from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, dated Jan 28 1994, all about FvwmIdent(1) 💅✨