Trivia questions
Maury Merkin (merkin@his.com)
Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:18:30 +0000
I really like AfterStep. Whoever has designed and built this thang has
done a super job and I thank you, one and all.
Now, a few (not very critical) questions.
I have found that most of the entries in the sample .as/autoexec file
which deal with "modules" take the following form:
Module "I" Wharf
Wait "I" Wharf
What, in the world, does the "Wait" command do? (I have commented some
of them out and, except for the Wait "I" Banner, I can't see any
difference in behavior. The Banner does seem to stick around a little
longer with the Wait command.)
Also, while I'm at it, what does the "I" do? I think I recall from
reading a man page from Fvwm2 that it means "immediate" but, if so, what
are the alternatives? For example, will 'Module "T" Wharf' be
understood as "do not bother loading Wharf unless today is Tuesday?"
(Sorry. I couldn't resist.)
Actually, the Wharf man page says to just put in the line "Module
Wharf," but that doesn't work. I tried. The "I"'s are necessary to get
AS to load. So what up with all of those "I"'s anyway?
Finally, I used to run Fvwm2 with m4. It was a nuisance to set up, but
once that was done I really liked the menus which showed only actually
existing programs. Has anyone done that with AS?
TIA,
Maury
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