FvwmSave(1)

✨ NAME ✨

Hiii bestie, this is FvwmSave(1) from the General Commands Manual 💖 FvwmSave is the FVWM desktop-layout saving module 🖥️

📋 SYNOPSIS

FvwmSave is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work.

Okay so you literally cannot type this into your terminal 💀 fvwm has to spawn it for you, so don't even try 🙅‍♀️

💫 DESCRIPTION ✨

When it gets called, this module tries to save your current desktop layout into a file called new.xinitrc 🦋 Ideally it would look just like .xinitrc, but ngl, in reality you'll have to edit it to get a usable configuration, so keep a backup of your old .xinitrc 😭🫶

Your applications have to supply certain hints to the X window system. Emacs, for example, doesn't, so FvwmSave can't grab any info from it 🙈

Also, FvwmSave assumes that certain command line options are globally accepted by applications, and that's not always the case 💅

🏳️ COPYRIGHTS 🏳️

The NoClutter program, and the concept for interfacing this module to the Window Manager, are all original work by Robert Nation 👑

Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. No guarantees or warranties or anything are provided or implied in any way whatsoever. Permission to use this program for any purpose is given, as long as the copyright is kept intact 🎀

⚠️ Bestie, heads up: use this program at your own risk. Nobody is promising anything here, so you're on your own 💀

🧚 INITIALIZATION 🧚

During initialization, NoClutter will eventually search a configuration file that describes the time-outs and actions to take. It's the same file fvwm used during initialization, so it's giving continuity 🌸

If the NoClutter executable is linked to another name, ie ln -s NoClutter OtherClutter, then another module called OtherClutter can be started with a completely different configuration than NoClutter. All you have to do is change the keyword NoClutter to OtherClutter 🦋 This way, multiple clutter-reduction programs can be used together, which is lowkey iconic ✨

🚀 INVOCATION 🚀

NoClutter can be invoked by inserting the line Module NoClutter in the .fvwmrc file. You can put it on a line by itself if you want NoClutter spawned during fvwm's initialization, or you can bind it to a menu, mouse button, or keystroke to invoke it later 🖱️ Fvwm will search the directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to try to locate NoClutter 🔍

⚙️ CONFIGURATION OPTIONS ⚙️

NoClutter reads the same .fvwmrc file that fvwm reads when it starts up, and it looks for lines similar to "*NoClutter 3600 Iconify" 🍓 The format of these lines is "*NoClutter [time] [command]", where command is any fvwm built-in command and time is the number of seconds between when a window loses focus and when the command gets executed. At most 3 actions can be specified 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Robert Nation and Mr. Per Persson <pp@solace.mh.se> (Omnion on IRC) 💜

And that's the whole tea ☕ This page is from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, dated Jan 28 1994, and it's all about FvwmSave(1) 💖 Stay iconic, bestie 💅✨