FvwmPipe1

Overview

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

Options

There are no configuration options.