Shift between themes?

Configuration General Questions
1

I have made two different .fvwm2rc files. I would like to add an option to a menu so I can easily shift between these two themes.

The problem is that the .fvwm2rc file is located in .fvwm and I don’t want to copy and paste all the time.

I was thinking that I might have the other .fvwm2rc file in the same dir but call it something else: .fvwm2rc_alternative and the add a function that loads this file instead.

Is that possible or should config files always have the name .fvwm2rc?

2

Stonecrest already does this and so do countless others, might want to have a look at their configs. Further I am pretty sure that this subject has been discussed before, might be worth searching for.

:slight_smile:

3

stonecrest’s config is unavailable, I just get an error when I try to download it. I have also tried searching for:

load alternative fvwm2rc
load theme
change theme

and could not find anything that described what I was looking for. I have tried the command:

fvwm2 -r -f <location and name of the alternative .fvwm2rc file>

but the it logs out and when I log in againg it just uses the same config file.

I have also tried:

AddToMenu ThemeMan

  • “Old” Read $[fvwm_home]/.fvwm2rc_alt

But it just leaves a mess and a lot of the previous configs settings still apply.

4

If you really do insist on reinventing an already old wheel, then so be it. You have some choices.

You either employ the use of a symlink, say ~/.fvwm/config that always points to the theme you want. If that ever changes (say from a menu entry which then updates the symlink) then when you restart FVWM, that would then update the theme.

Personally I wouldn’t do this, in favour of using the Restart command the way it was intended:

Restart fvwm -f $[HOME]/.fvwm/some/other/file

I never really saw the usefulness in this approach. It’s silly, slows down FVWM, and if can’t settle on one theme, then quite frankly you should consider evaluating that.

– Thomas Adam