fvwm-perllib(1)
β¨ fvwm-perllib β the Fvwm Utilities glow-up β¨
okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because this one is genuinely useful. fvwm-perllib is a lil utility from the Fvwm Utilities corner of the world that justβ¦ shows you the docs for the Fvwm Perl library π
π NAME π
fvwm-perllib β shows the documentation of the Fvwm Perl library
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
fvwm-perllib [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-v|-V ] [ man [ Perl::Class ]
] [ cat [ Perl::Class ] ] [ raw [ Perl::Class ] ] [ dir ]
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
so like. starting from fvwm-2.5.x versions, there's built-in support for making fvwm modules in Perl. periodt. and this fvwm-perllib utility is the help-service bestie for the Fvwm Perl library β it's giving personal assistant energy π«Ά
π OPTIONS π
--helpβ show the help and exit. iconic, unbothered, done.--versionβ show the version and exit.--manorman [ Perl::Class ]β show the manual page just likeman(1)does π--catorcat [ Perl::Class ]β show the manual page in plain text. no frills, just vibes.--raworraw [ Perl::Class ]β generate output in man format, which is not human readable. literally for machines only, don't try to read it with your eyes π--dirordirβ print the perllib directory without a trailing end of line. no cap, that missing newline is the whole point.
π USAGE π
use this in the fvwm modules written in Perl:
use lib `fvwm-perllib dir`;
Introduction to the Fvwm Perl library:
% fvwm-perllib man
Manual page for the "FVWM::Module" class:
% fvwm-perllib man FVWM::Module
Standard options:
% fvwm-perllib --help
% fvwm-perllib --version
π AUTHORS π
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>. shoutout, we love a main character β¨
π COPYING π
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License for details. (yes bestie, read the license, it's the rules π)
π BUGS π
No known bugs.
Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org.
and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one is version 2.5.28 (from cvs), dated 2009-03-22 β genuinely a little vintage icon from the Fvwm Utilities era π
β¨ mwah, go forth and read your Perl docs π¦
π¦ where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: fvwm-doc 2.7.0-r3 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- fedora 43: fvwm 2.7.0-15.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- fedora 44: fvwm 2.7.0-16.fc44 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- nixos 26.05: fvwm 2.7.0
- nixpkgs unstable: fvwm 2.7.0
- opensuse-leap 16.0: fvwm2 2.7.0-bp160.1.11 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: fvwm2 2.7.0-bp160.1.11 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: fvwm2 2.7.0-bp160.1.11 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: fvwm2 2.7.0-bp160.1.11 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: fvwm 1:2.6.8-1build1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms