On 13 Sep 2002 08:49:54 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > I think I finally figured out a better way to present the > SYNOPSIS for modules. The old wording always confused me. > I'll propagate the change to the other modules after a few days > if there are no objections.
I have no objections. I think the old way was choosen, because the section (1) of manual pages contains commands supposed to be run from the command line. Probably, the original intend was to do this. But since this is not possible, at least currently, it makes sense to move module man pages to section (3) or (4) or (11). Actually the following info that was removed from FAQ worths mentioning somewhere (I don't know where, the original place seems ok): fvwm -cmd "FvwmCpp .fvwmrc.cpp" Version 2.4 has a more compete fix that makes the above line work reliably: any module started by command line arguments is assumed to be a module that sends back config commands. All command line modules have to quit before fvwm will proceed on to the InitFunction and setting border decorations and styles. There is a potential deadlock if you start a module other than FvwmCpp/FvwmM4 but there is a timeout so fvwm will eventually get going. I knew that starting the pager this way hangs fvwm, and this works: fvwm -cmd "AddToFunc StartFunction I FvwmPager" But the reason for this was not obvious. I am not sure this is a very good functionality, since there is a synchronous way to run FvwmCpp. But I myself don't use -cmd except for tests. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
