NAME
FvwmPipe - Pipe commands into FVWM
SYNOPSIS
FvwmPipe is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work.
DESCRIPTION
FvwmPipe allows the user the ability to control fvwm from without itself. On startup, it created the named pipe $HOME/.fvwmpipe.in. Whatever is written to this pipe is passed on to fvwm.
INVOCATION
FvwmPipe can be invoked by inserting the line 'Module FvwmPipe' in the .fvwm2rc file. This can be placed on a line by itself, if FvwmPipe is to be spawned during fvwm's initialization, or can be bound to a menu or mouse button or keystroke to invoke it later. Fvwm will search directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to attempt to locate FvwmPipe.
EXAMPLES
To restart fvwm, one could do the following:
echo "restart" > $HOME/.fvwmpipe.in
To add emacs to the StartMenu, the following could be used:
echo "AddtoMenu \"StartMenu\" \"Emacs\" Exec emacs " > $HOME/.fvwmpipe.in
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
There are no configuration options.
AUTHOR
FvwmPipe was written by Matthias Ettrich, 1996. This manual page was written by Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> for Debian GNU/Linux, based on the source code, and may be freely redistributed.