Re: Broken fvwm install?

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

No, no... please understand... I am not complaining about anything... I 
know what free software is all about.  I was just looking for a 
reasonable window manager instead of twm.... if fvwm isn't it, then so be 
it...  I don't have the time or patience to debug this package, 
especially not for free at the moment...

Do I have to download anything more from the Cygwin setup to use the 
Multiwindow mode, or just add the -multiwindow parameter to XWin.exe?

Also, what do I do about the line invoking the window manager in the 
script file, be it twm or fvwm?

On 23 May 2003 at 14:09, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> 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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