FvwmConsole, FvwmPrompt, naked ncat, or what

[farblos]

Hi,

I'm migrating to fvwm3 these days, currently on version 1.0.5. What would be the preferred solution to talk to a running fvwm instance, in particular so that the instance also gives some feedback? I run fvwm as fvwm3 -v -o -.

• Could not get FvwmConsole to report STDOUT, STDERR, or even sole Echo output in the console window. Checking results in a tail on .xsession-errors feels slightly awkward.

• ncat on the FvwmMFL socket works, and with set echo at least provides some feedback.

• FvwmPrompt is not (yet?) available in Debian, which I am using. Does it handle STDOUT, STDERR, Echo output in a better way than FvwmConsole or ncat/FvwmMFL?

Thanks!

[farblos]

Just came across rlwrap, which together with nc/ncat makes for a nice, interactive fvwm CLI (in the absence of FvwmPrompt). Anyway, it would be interesting to know what others recommend to get an interactive fvwm CLI that

• has readline support
• echoes "echo" and "printinfo" results directly in the same terminal
• echoes any fvwm errors directly in the same terminal