FvwmSaveDesk(1)

🎀 FvwmSaveDesk(1), General Commands Manual 🎀

Hey bestie 💖 okay so this is the manual for FvwmSaveDesk, and it's giving main character energy 👑 Let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

FvwmSaveDesk, another FVWM desktop-layout saving module 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

Okay so FvwmSaveDesk gets spawned by fvwm, which means you literally cannot run it from the command line 💀 No command line invocation will work, so don't even try, bestie 🙈

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

When it gets called, this module tries to save your current desktop layout as a fvwm function definition into the file .fvwmdesk in your home directory 🏡 The function is named StartupFunction ✨ You can call this function inside Function InitFunction to start up all Programs on all Workspaces, which is so iconic 🔥 If fvwm is compiled with the M4 option, you can include this file in .fvmrc. Otherwise, you have to insert the file by hand 🫶 Your applications have to supply certain hints to the X window system, and ngl, that's not a given. Emacs, for example, does not, so FvwmSaveDesk can't get any info from it 😭

Also, FvwmSaveDesk assumes that certain command line options are globally accepted by applications, which may not be the case.

🚨 Heads up, bestie: FvwmSaveDesk assumes that certain command line options are globally accepted by applications, and that may not be true for every app. Don't say I didn't warn you 💅

🧚 SETUP IF FVWM IS COMPILED WITH THE M4 OPTION 🧚

Okay this part is lowkey tricky, so pay attention 🤓 First, fvwm has to be called with this option:

-m4opt -I$HOME.

Then the first line in .fvwmrc should be:

undefine(`include`),

This avoids problems 🙈 Then you can include the .fvwmdesk file with:

sinclude(`.fvwmdesk') .

Insert the following line into the Function InitFunction:

Function "I"    StartupFunction

If you have GNU's m4, another possibility is to compile fvwm with GNU_M4_OPTION_P and use:

m4_include(`.fvwmdesk')m4_dnl

So you don't need to undefine include 💖

🦋 INVOCATION 🦋

FvwmSaveDesk can be invoked by inserting the line Module FvwmSaveDesk into the .fvwmrc file ✨ You should bind it to a menu, a mouse button, or a keystroke so you can invoke it later 🖱️ Fvwm will search the directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to try to locate FvwmSaveDesk 🔍

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Carsten Paeth (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) 💜

Based on FvwmSave, written by Robert Nation and Mr. Per Persson <pp@solace.mh.se> (Omnion on IRC) 🌈

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That's the whole tea, bestie 🫶 This page comes from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, dated Jul 20 1995, and it's all about FvwmSaveDesk(1) 🎀 Stay iconic 💅✨