Broken fvwm install?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Stephen,

I appreciate that it might not take a lot to fix the package (from your 
perspective), but I simply haven't got time to work on it.  99% of users 
are using either XDMCP, in which case they don't need a local window 
manager, or they are using the integrated Windows-based window manager 
known as MultiWindow mode (use the -multiwindow parameter for XWin.exe). 
  The developer time/benefit ratio here is almost nill.  You are more 
than welcome to submit a fixed package for this.

Harold

Stephen Biggs wrote:

> Again, it works, but it is missing a bunch of stuff and it doesn't 
> install itself correctly.  The version on the cygwin package is way 
> behind the current version for other platforms, but if I can find the 
> proper icons file (which should have been included in the download or at 
> least as another download choice on the "setup" menu, no?), then things 
> would go much better.
> 
> On 23 May 2003 at 13:11, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>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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