On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:04:29PM +0100, Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> At work, my homedirectory is in AFS, a distributed file system that
> has many useful features, but is limited in the kind of files that
> it allows. Specifically it's not possible to create a socket in
> AFS space.
> 
> Unfortunately that means that I can't use FvwmConsole.
> 
> FvwmConsole tries to setup a socket in $HOME/.fvwm/ by default and
> it appears there is no way around this, other than changing the
> sourcecode.

If you set the environment variable FVWM_USERDIR to a directory
name, fvwm uses this directory instead of $HOME/.fvwm.

> Other software sets up sockets or named pipes in $TMP or elsewhere
> in /var and ensures they are placed in a subdirectory that is only
> accessible to the user, as in /tmp/orbit-$USER, /var/run/uscreens
> etc.
> 
> I wonder if FvwmConsole could be adapted in a similar way and how
> to do this correctly and portably.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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