FvwmSaveDesk(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   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 layout as a fvwm function definition into the file .fvwmdesk in your
       home directory. The function is named StartupFunction.  This Function can be called in Function InitFunction to startup all Programs on all
       Workspaces.   If  fvwm is compiled with the M4 option, you can include this file in .fvmrc else you have to insert this file by hand.  Your
       applications must supply certain hints to the X window system.  Emacs, 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 IF FVWM IS COMPILED WITH THE M4 OPTION
       Fvwm has to be called with the option

       -m4opt -I$HOME.

       The first line in .fvwmrc should be

       undefine(`include`),

       to avoid problems.  You can the include the file .fvwmdesk with

       sinclude(`.fvwmdesk') .

       Insert the following line into the Function InitFunction

       Function "I"    StartupFunction

       If you have GNU's m4 another possiblity is to compile fvwm with GNU_M4_OPTION_P and use

       m4_include(`.fvwmdesk')m4_dnl

       So you don't need to undefine `include'.

INVOCATION

       FvwmSaveDesk  can be invoked by inserting the line 'Module FvwmSaveDesk' in the .fvwmrc file.  This should be bound to a menu or mouse but-
       ton or keystroke to invoke it later. Fvwm will search directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to attempt to locate Fvwm-
       SaveDesk.

AUTHOR

       Carsten Paeth (calle@calle.in-berlin.de)

       based on FvwmSave written by Robert Nation and Mr. Per Persson <pp@solace.mh.se> (Omnion on IRC)

3rd Berkeley Distribution					    Jul 20 1995 						   FvwmSaveDesk(1)