From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 16:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8F337B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjhalljr@starpower.net) Received: from 66-44-66-103.s103.tnt7.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.66.103]) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #2) id 15K6xH-0007Ez-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:30:12 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rjhalljr@pop.starpower.net Message-Id: Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:30:13 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Bob Hall Subject: Re: Installing fvwm from 4.3 RELEASE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Parv, Thanks for the answer. I downloaded your response to my posting onto my Unix box while I was testing mutt. Since I haven't figured out how to get nullmailer and mutt to work together yet, I can't respond from that machine. So I'm responding from the Mac, and I'm not going to try to quote the entire message by retyping it. Here's all the info on my non-functioning fvwm installation that I've posted so far: 1) If I try to call fvwm with anything except fvwm2 & in xinitrc, fvwm won't start at all. 2) When I start fvwm, I get the desktop with some vaguely 3-D xterms. The windows have no buttons, and I can't move them or resize them. I can get only one menu, with only one functioning selection: Quit fvwm. 3) I can get fully functional instances of twm, blackbox, and enlightenment by calling them in xinitrc with & Fully functional means that I was able to click buttons on the window frames, iconify the windows, resize them, etc. None of this was possible in fvwm. 4) xinitrc is not a dot file in my installation. In answer to your question, this is a brand new FreeBSD installation, and all the fvwm files are from the fvwm package on the first cd of the FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE cd collection. This is version 2.2.4. I have no files from previous or later versions. Further info: typing the following command after installation returns nothing: find /usr -name "*fvwm2rc*" As near as I can figure out, the window manager packages are supposed to work without needing any configuration after installation, aside from calling them in xinitrc. That's the case with the three that I have successfully started. Bob Hall Know thyself? Absurd direction! Bubbles bear no introspection. -Khushhal Khan Khatak MySQL list magic words: sql query database To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message