fvwm-2.4.7-2 install missing /usr/local/etc/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc?

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Sun Dec 1 16:44:00 GMT 2002


Michael,

Maintainership of fvwm is yours if you want it.

Harold

Michael Bax wrote:
> In followup to my earlier message:
> 
> 
>>INSTALL.fvwm from the fvwm source tarfile (fvwm.org) suggests 
>>copying system.fvwm2rc to /usr/local/etc/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc 
>>to provide a system default.  This file does not appear to be 
>>present in the Cygwin package, but it seems that installing 
>>this file to the correct place would be the most transparent 
>>way to streamline fvwm setup.
> 
> 
> The Cygwin version of fvwm2 appears to be configured slightly
> differently from the         default.  The appropriate directories for
> system.fvwm2rc are 
> 	${datadir}/fvwm -->	/usr/X11R6/share/fvwm
> and
> 	${sysconfdir}   -->  /etc (why not /usr/local/etc or even
> /etc/X11?)
> 
> As a possible alternative to supplying this default configuration file,
> what about installing fwwm-icons along with a configuration
> pre-generated by FvwmScript-Setup95?
> 
> Cheers
> Michael
> 



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