It is possible to specify a customized menu item format, change a command (usually launching a browser) and add menu icons (there is a support for the wm-icons package).
Format specifiers for a headline format:
%h - headline %u - url %d - date in the native format (that site backend supplied) %[strftime-argument-string] - date/time, see strftime(3) the date/time is represented according to the local time; date and/or time fields that can't be guessed are stripped Example: %[|%d %B %Y| %H:%M %S] If site supplied only date - this becomes %[|%d %B %Y|], if site supplied no date - this becomes an empty string. %{name} - site specific named value, like %{comments} %(text) - arbitrary text, good for escaping or aligning
These specifiers can receive an optional integer size, positive for right adjusted string or negative for left adjusted, example: %8x; and optional *num or *-num, which means to leave only the first or last (if minus) num of chars, the num must be greater than 3, since the striped part is replaced with ``...'', example: %*30x. Both can be combined: %-10*-20x, this instructs to get only the 20 last characters, but if the length is less then 10 - to fill with up to 10 spaces on the right.
Example:
--exec "iceweasel -remote 'openURL(%u, new-window)' || iceweasel '%u'"
In fact, --exec=``mozilla '%u''' is equivalent to --command=``Exec mozilla '%u'''
WORK_HOME of this script is ~/.fvwm/.fvwm-menu-headlines. It is created if needed.
Option parameters can be specified either using '=' or in the next argument. Short options are ok if not ambiguous: "-h", "-t"; but be careful with short options, what is now unambiguous, can become ambiguous in the next versions.
0,30 * * * * fvwm-menu-headlines --file --site freshmeat 1,31 * * * * fvwm-menu-headlines --file --site linuxtoday 2,32 * * * * fvwm-menu-headlines --file --site slashdot
Then add these lines to your fvwm configuration file:
DestroyFunc FuncFvwmMenuHeadlines AddToFunc FuncFvwmMenuHeadlines + I Read "$HOME/.fvwm/.fvwm-menu-headlines/$0.menu" DestroyMenu MenuHeadlines AddToMenu MenuHeadlines "Headlines" Title + MissingSubmenuFunction FuncFvwmMenuHeadlines + "FreshMeat" Popup freshmeat + "LinuxToday" Popup linuxtoday + "Slashdot" Popup slashdot
2. Another way to use this script (only if you have fast network/proxy) is to run it every time you want to open your Headlines submenus. (Note, the submenu that is once created is not reloaded, use ``Reset all''.)
In this case your fvwm configuration lines could be:
DestroyFunc FuncFvwmMenuHeadlines AddToFunc FuncFvwmMenuHeadlines + I PipeRead "fvwm-menu-headlines --site $0" #+ I Schedule 900000 DestroyMenu $0 # reset generated menu in 15 minutes DestroyMenu MenuHeadlines AddToMenu MenuHeadlines "Headlines" Title + MissingSubmenuFunction FuncFvwmMenuHeadlines + "FreshMeat" Popup freshmeat + "Slashdot" Popup slashdot + "LinuxToday" Popup linuxtoday + "GNOME News" Popup gnome-news + "KDE News" Popup kde-news + "" Nop + "Reset all" FuncResetHeadlines DestroyFunc FuncResetHeadlines AddToFunc FuncResetHeadlines + I DestroyMenu freshmeat + I DestroyMenu linuxtoday + I DestroyMenu slashdot + I DestroyMenu gnome-news + I DestroyMenu kde-news
And finally, add ``Popup MenuHeadlines'' somewhere.
3. Here is a usual usage. Use FvwmConsole or FvwmCommand to run fvwm commands from a shell script. Every time you want headlines from some site, execute (give any additional options if you want):
PipeRead "fvwm-menu-headlines --site newsforge --name MenuHeadlinesNewsForge" # this may take several seconds, you may use: BusyCursor Read true Popup MenuHeadlinesNewsForge
$site_info->{'myslashdot'} = {
'name' => "MySlashdot",
'host' => "myslashdot.org",
'path' => "/myslashdot.xml",
'func' => \&process_my_slashdot,
# the following string is only used in --info
'flds' => 'time, title, department, topic, author, url',
};
sub process_my_slashdot () {
return process_xml(
'story',
# mandatory 'h', 'u' and 'd' aliases or undef
{ 'h' => 'title', 'u' => 'url', 'd' => 'time' },
sub ($) { # convert 'd' string to (y, m, d, H, M, S)
$_[0] =~ /(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+) (\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/;
($1, ($2 || 0) - 1, $3, $4, $5, $6);
}, +0, # timezone offset; already in UTC
);
}
1;
Jeff Meininger <jeffm@boxybutgood.com> (http://rive.boxybutgood.com/WMHeadlines/).
Reimplemented for fvwm and heavily enhanced by:
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>, 16 Dec 1999.
The headline times may be off by one hour or more, since the time is displayed for your local time zone, and the time zone of the original time in the site backend output is often guessed (sometimes incorrectly); similarly it is guessed whether to apply the daylight saving correction.
Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org.