FvwmSaveDesk(1)                                                FvwmSaveDesk(1)




NAME
       FvwmSaveDesk - another FVWM desktop-layout saving module

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


DESCRIPTION
       When called, this module will attempt to save your current desktop
       layout as a definition of extra lines for the function InitFunction
       into the file .fvwm2desk in your home directory. As explain in the
       other documation, this function is called at startup of fvwm2.  You
       have to include this file in .fvwmrc after the definition of the
       Function Initfunction.  You can do this by using the module FvwmM4 or
       FvwmCpp.

       Your applications must supply certain hints to the X window system.
       Emacs and Netscape , for example, does not, so FvwmSaveDesk can't get
       any information from it.

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


SETUP USING FVWMM4 MODULE
       The M4 Macro processor substitutes its macros even in the middle of a
       word. Because of that you may have problems with predefined macros such
       as include or define. To avoid this the GNU M4 has an extra option to
       prefix all builtins with 'm4_'. FvwmM4 can be called with option
       -m4-prefix and then will provide the option -P to M4.  I personally use
       the FvwmM4 module this way.

       fvwm2 -f "FvwmM4 -m4-prefix -m4opt -I$HOME $HOME/.fvwmrc"

       Simply add the following line to the end of .fvwmrc:

       m4_include(`.fvwm2desk') .


SETUP USING FVWMCPP MODULE
       With the FVWMCPP you may have the problem that the preprocessor
       directives starts with the comment charakter '#' and will complain
       about unknown directives, if you have comments in your .fvwmrc.

       fvwm2 -f "FvwmCpp -C-I$HOME $HOME/.fvwmrc"

       Simply add the following line to the end of .fvwmrc:

       #include ".fvwm2desk"


INVOCATION
       FvwmSaveDesk can be invoked by adding it to a menu or binding it to a
       mouse button or keystoke in the .fvwmrc file.  Fvwm2 will search
       directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to locate
       FvwmSaveDesk.

       To insert it to a menu, add the line

       +    "Save Desktop" Module FvwmSaveDesk

       to the menu definition.  I thing binding it to a mouse button is not
       very useful, but you can do that, by adding for example this line.

       Mouse 3        R    CS   Module FvwmSaveDesk

       Than FvwmSaveDesk will be called if you hit the right mouse button on
       the root window while holding the shift and control button down.

       You can bind FvwmSaveDesk to a function key F10 for example you have to
       insert the following line:

       Key  F10  A    Module FvwmSaveDesk

       I personally add it as a Button to the module FvwmButtons:

       *FvwmButtons SaveDesc desk.xpm   Module FvwmSaveDesk


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



3rd Berkeley Distribution                                           Jul 6 1996
