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fvwm-config – query an existing fvwm installation

Synopsis

fvwm-config [–help] [–version] [–info] [–prefix] [–exec-prefix] [–bindir] [–datadir] [–libexecdir] [–sysconfdir] [–mandir] [–localedir] [–fvwm-moduledir] [–fvwm-datadir] [–fvwm-perllibdir] [–default-imagepath] [–default-userdir] [–fvwm-exe] [–supports] [–supports-<feature>]

Description

fvwm-config is a shell script that provides an information about the fvwm version, installation directories, built-in paths and supported features.

Options

fvwm-config prints to the standard output in all options. Both short and long GNU-like option names may be used.

-h –help -?: prints the short usage
-v –version -V: prints the version
-i –info: prints the full info page
-P –prefix: prints the installation prefix
-E –exec-prefix: prints the installation exec-prefix
-B –bindir: prints the installation bindir
-D –datadir: prints the installation datadir
-L –libexecdir: prints the installation libexecdir
-S –sysconfdir: prints the installation sysconfdir
-M –mandir: prints the installation mandir
-O –localedir: prints the installation localedir
-m –fvwm-moduledir: prints FVWM_MODULEDIR, where the modules are installed
-d –fvwm-datadir: prints FVWM_DATADIR, where the system wide configs are installed
-p –fvwm-perllibdir: prints FVWM_PERLLIBDIR, where the perl library is installed
-I –default-imagepath: prints the built-in ImagePath
-U –default-userdir: prints the default FVWM_USERDIR, note: $HOME is not expanded
-e –fvwm-exe: prints the fvwm executable name (in bindir)
-s –supports: lists all supported features, one per line
–supports-<feature>: prints nothing, returns: 0 if the <feature> is supported, 100 if not, 200 if unknown. All or supported feature names may be found using –info or –supports respectively.

Usage

Here are some real life usages.

Checks for xft support:

if fvwm-config –supports-xft;

 then echo 1; else echo 0; fi

fvwm-themes package checks for the correct fvwm version installed using:

fvwm-config –version

and tries to use the same installation directories:

fvwm-config –bindir –mandir –fvwm-datadir

A way to find the full path to the fvwm executable:

echo `fvwm-config –bindir`/`fvwm-config –fvwm-exe`

A way to start modules in perl:

use lib `fvwm-config -p | tr -d ‘`;

use FVWM::Module;

For a more human readable output, try:

fvwm-config –info

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fvwm-config is a part of fvwm package and distributed by the same terms, see GNU GPL.

Author

Mikhael Goikhman <migo [at] homemail.com>

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