Re: Broken fvwm install?

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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.