Sending module-type messages via network and/or X?

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Helllo,

I want to control FVWM from an application that is Not a subprocess of fvwm. Is there a way to do this other than FvwmCommand? (& over the network)
Specifically, I was wondering if there are Window-Manager-Hints for reading/writing requests.

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You could write a module to provide the interface. If you used perllib there’s be relatively little effort involved. You’d need to use select to monitor the two file descriptors - one for the network socket and one for the pipe to FVWM. For the protocol, you could just forward packets from FVWM to the network connection and vice versa.

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Hi,

What about allowing modules to access their own, custom WM hints?

Daniel

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I don’t know how you’d go about that. Modules can only manipulate FVWM internals through the configuration command set. I don’t know of any command that allows the definition of custom hints - doubt someone will set
me right if I’m wrong.

Basically, if you can’t do it from the config file, you can’t do it from a module either