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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
       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 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.

       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  directives  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)