Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?
Firstly, I just wanted to thank Anthony Towns for his concise and
excellent responses to some of your points. I won't repeat what he
says, but I have this minor point to add ...
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?"):
> Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > -norway:~> fvwm -cmd 'FvwmM4 .fvwmrc'
> > sh: m4: command not found
> > [ and then it runs with an empty config file using builtin defaults ]
>
> And it works. Not ideally, but it did not dump me back to the
> login screen. I can now put in place a second config file, which does
> not need m4, and it shall work even better -- perhaps not all the
> bells and whistles I might have, had I installed m4, but hey. It WORKS!!
Err, the behaviour you see is AIUI the same you get from *any* failure
by fvwm to open or parse the config file; ie, it's fvwm's failsafe
response (which is reasonably good, but could do with better error
reporting in most configurations).
Ian.
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