Subject: Re: FVWM: obtaining arbitrary text from user and referencing it in .fvwm2rc

From: [email-masked] (John Latham)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:10:38 GMT

> From: greg shebert <[email-masked]>

> hi all...
>
> i have a situation where i would like the window manager to prompt the 
> user for some text input and then to use that input in subsequent menus 
> specified in the .fvwm2rc
>
> for example, lets say that i  want the user to be able to specify the 
> color of the foreground of an xterm...
>    the user selects 'xterm' from their mouse menu...
>    they are then prompted for the foreground color...
>    they then get a submenu that allows them to choose from a number of 
> different fonts....
>    the xterm pops up with the right color and font
>
> is something like this possible?
>
> i'd like to avoid, if at all possible, popping up an xterm to get the 
> text input
>
> thanks for any help,
> -greg-

Sounds like a job for FvwmScript.

I have such a script that prompts the user for all 20 xterm colours (including
a colour browser), font, auto wrap, scroll, etc., and writes the results to an
X resources file. It's part of the AnotherLevelUp fvwm2 configuration

	http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~jtl/ALU/

but you could easily modify it to make it `stand alone'. If you get the tar
from the above URL, you'll find it in

	scripts/Xresources_XTerm
and	scripts/ColourNameBrowser

and you will also want

	bin/try-xterm-colours

Regards, John
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