Broken fvwm install?
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Fri May 23 17:12:00 GMT 2003
Its probably broken because no one is maintaining it. I can't remember
if I was the one that made the fvwm package or if someone else sent me a
version to release. I seem to remember the latter. If it is broken,
then I should probably pull it from the list of package unless someone
wants to maintain it.
Can anybody confirm that it works? I will leave it up even if it
requires a little configuring to get it working.
Harold
Stephen Biggs wrote:
> I downloaded the XFree86 cygwin version and the fvwm package.
>
> The fvwm doesn't install itself as the window manager, so I changed the
> line in startxwin.sh from "twm &" to "fvwm &". This caused it to load
> but it failed to find any *.xpm files with a few hundred error messages.
>
> I went to the fvwm website and downloaded the icons and this went a lot
> better, but it is still missing a LOT of *.xpm files as well as "xload"
> (which probably doesn't make sense on a Windows 98 system, but why does
> the vanilla installation try to load it?)
>
> Shouldn't the cygwin install take care of these issues? What am I
> missing? There is NO documentation on what to do about these issues.
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