Re: Broken fvwm install?

["Stephen Biggs" <yyyyy50 at hotpop dot com>]

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.
>