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FvwmSaveDesk(1)			 FVWM Modules		       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 lay‐
       out  as	a definition of extra lines for the function InitFunction into
       the file .fvwm2desk in your home directory. As  explain	in  the	 other
       documentation, this function is called at startup of fvwm.  You have to
       include this file in .fvwm2rc 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 glob‐
       ally 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.

       fvwm -cmd "FvwmM4 -m4-prefix -m4opt -I$HOME $HOME/.fvwm2rc"

       Simply add the following line to the end of .fvwm2rc:

       m4_include(`.fvwm2desk') .

SETUP USING FVWMCPP MODULE
       With  the FVWMCPP you may have the problem that the preprocessor direc‐
       tives starts with the comment character '#'  and	 will  complain	 about
       unknown directives, if you have comments in your .fvwm2rc.

       fvwm -cmd "FvwmCpp -C-I$HOME $HOME/.fvwm2rc"

       Simply add the following line to the end of .fvwm2rc:

       #include ".fvwm2desk"

INVOCATION
       FvwmSaveDesk  can  be invoked by adding it to a menu or binding it to a
       mouse button or key stroke in the  .fvwm2rc  file.   Fvwm  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 (not released yet) (2.5.20)	       FvwmSaveDesk(1)
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