On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:05:54PM +0000, Michael Treibton wrote: > On 24/02/2008, Jaimos Skriletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not run across any built in way to do this. Bascailly all it does is > > move each > > window to the current location of the corresponding window. If the windows > > are the > > same size you get nice results (such as terminals), if windows are > > different size you > > could push them off the screen or get other strange behavior. > > i got that far, yes, it just seems to not work at all after a while. > > > Thomas enviormental pollution is more 'pointless' env vars are bad. As > > anything they > > just take up resorces and why waste resorces if there is no point. such as > > using > > $[fvwm_home] when $[FVWM_USERDIR] already exists and covers this. > > i don't follow you here - got an example? i only remember seeing > something in passing and am interested. >
I did give you two examples of how 'pointless' enviorment variables are not needed, there are other reasons why you would want to use FVWM_USERDIR over fvwm_home (one is all systems know FVWM_USERDIR). please read thomas' writeup. http://fvwm.lair.be/viewtopic.php?t=1505 jaimos
