FVWM/Man Pages Menu

While configuring FVWM, it's very useful to have rapid access to its manual pages. This page describes an addition to the menu that will provide such access. This example uses fvwm-crystal, but it should work the same with any FVWM config.

Introduction
If you don't already have a User Recipe Menu for fvwm-crystal, just create it. To start, simply create the directory ~/fvwm-crystal/recipes and copy a recipe from /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm/recipe into this new directory. Whenever creating a new recipe such as this one, try to name it appropriately. Restart fvwm and you will get a new Fvwm-crystal/preferences/recipes/user-recipe menu with the renamed recipe in it.

Recipe Modification
Edit this recipe and add the following new section: Include components/functions/FvwmManPagesMenu
 * 1) ManPagesMenu

Add the following in the menu section (I choose to add it immediately after the AddToMenu /FVWM-Crystal statement, but you may prefer another place): + '%22x22/fvwm-crystal/fvwm-crystal.png%$[gt.Help]' Popup FvwmManPagesMenu

FvwmManPagesMenu Component
We need to create a new component; FvwmManPagesMenu. It is included in the recipe by the preceding Include statement.

Create the directory ~/.fvwm-crystal/components/functions and add the following FvwmManPagesMenu in it:

That's all. Just start this recipe and enjoy your new Help menu.

See also:

 * FVWM
 * FVWM/Configuration