FVWM Problems

[Adrian Burd <adrian at plankton dot marsci dot uga dot edu>]

Hi,

I've just started to use Cygwin and I'm very impressed. However, I'm
having a problem with getting fvwm to work properly. I'm missing
something, but I can't see it.

I believe I've installed all the required packages using the Cygwin
setup program. I then edited my .xinitrc to start fvwm2 instead of
twm. I use startx to start the X server. The first time I started
fvwm, I used the fvwm-95 configure button to set up an initial .fvwmrc
file. 

I get a full screen X, with the initial three xterms, a clock and the
fvwm buttons in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. But the
buttons are all grey with no pixmaps.

There are many error messages from the Xserver and fvwm. They start
with

  3 [unknown (0x17C)] XWin 880 fhandler_console::fixup_after_exec: error opening input console handle after exec, errno 13, Win32 error 5
 108886 [unknown (0x17C)] XWin 880 fhandler_console::fixup_after_exec: error opening input console handle after exec, errno 13, Win32 error 5
  6 [unknown (0x724)] sh 1832 fhandler_console::fixup_after_exec: error opening input console handle after exec, errno 13, Win32 error 5
  28958 [unknown (0x724)] sh 1832 fhandler_console::fixup_after_exec: error opening input console handle after exec, errno 13, Win32 error 5
  67985 [main] sh 1832 fhandler_console::dup: error opening console, Win32 error 5
  2 [unknown (0x744)] cat 2176 fhandler_console::fixup_after_exec: error opening input console handle after exec, errno 13, Win32 error 5
  33742 [unknown (0x744)] cat 2176 fhandler_console::fixup_after_exec: error opening input console handle after exec, errno 13, Win32 error 5

and continue with many lines such as 

 [FVWM][CMD_Style]: <<ERROR>> Bad style option: \
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'StaysOnTop,'
 [FVWM][CMD_Style]: <<ERROR>> Bad style option: \
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'IconBox'
 [FVWM][AddToFunction]: <<ERROR>> Got '
' instead of a valid function specifier
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'I'
 [FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't load image from side.fvwm2.xpm
 [FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't load image from screen.xpm
 [FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't load image from modules.xpm
 [FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't load image from shells.xpm

interspersed with things like

 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'xload'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'geometry'
 [FVWM][CMD_Style]: <<ERROR>> Bad style option: \
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'CirculateSkip'
 [FVWM][CMD_Style]: <<ERROR>> Bad style option: \
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'BorderWidth'
 [FVWM][CMD_Style]: <<ERROR>> Bad style option:  \
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'WindowListSkip,'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'Swallow'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'MyPanelButtons'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'Action(Mouse'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'Swallow'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'MyPanelButtons'
 [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'Action(Mouse'

I'm guessing that the pixmaps were not part of the Cygwin package
(I've donw a find for the them and cannot find them), but there seems
to be something else that is going on here as well as witnessed by the
"Bad style option" and "No such command" messages I'm getting -
perhaps there's a module missing?

I'd be grateful for any pointers as to what I'm missing and how to
correct it.

Many thanks,

Adrian