FvwmTabs

Configuration

Introduction

If you have not used FvwmTabs before, please:

  • read the requirements
  • consider reading the tutorial
  • remember that the FvwmTabs(1) manpage (that comes distributed with FVWM) is a handy reference

Quick start

Insert this line in your .fvwm2rc file & restart FVWM:

AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmTabs

Optional configuration

By default, FvwmTabs reads a default user configuration file FvwmTabs-DefaultSetup which defines several useful key-bindings for FvwmTabs. You can tell FvwmTabs NOT to read this file with:

SetEnv FvwmTabs_NoDefaultSetup

If you use a decent shell like zsh (csh is evil) you might like to add these functions to your ~/.zshrc file so that tabs/titles have more meaningful names when executing commands:

setTitleAndIcon () {  print -nP '%{\e]2;'$1'\a\e]1;'$2'\a%}' }
preexec () { setTitleAndIcon $1 ${1%% *} }
precmd () { setTitleAndIcon %n@%m %m }

There are likely similar functions for other sh/csh shells, but I am not aware of the syntax.

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