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Re: Broken fvwm install?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:36:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Broken fvwm install?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
It worked for me when I set it up for a friend a year or so ago. I
remember it involved reading the docs and fiddling with it, but I did get
it running (at least the fvwm95 configuration). I don't remember the
details, so I can't be of any help to the OP.
Igor
On Fri, 23 May 2003, 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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