In relation to enviornment variables for configuration. I've often considered the possibility of using the 'envdir' tool from DJB's daemontools package for simple configuration in things like dwm.
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envdir.html It's a simple tool that sets environment variables based on the contents of a specified directory, and then runs the specified process with that environment. It's usefullness would be limited to simple key-value config options like colour and font, however it would mean that any software (such as dmenu for example) that was patched to use the same variables would automatically inherit the configuration when launched from dwm. I doubt such a system would be to everybody's taste, but I think it could be a fairly elegant solution for certain setups. On 9 February 2011 21:10, anonymous <p37si...@lavabit.com> wrote: > Methods discussed in this thread (environment variables and shell > scripts) are already covered in TAOUP: > <http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/configurationchapter.html> > > >
