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 ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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