From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 13:17:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10874 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 13:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (mailhost.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10869 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 13:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALNAME ([207.147.168.91]) by mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA15446 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 20:16:36 +0000 Message-ID: <3378CC57.15E0@worldnet.att.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:17:27 -0700 From: "Jeffrey J. Ayres" Organization: independent X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@Freebsd.org Subject: starting fvwm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@Freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Installation of the window manager program fvwm95 is not working. The error message in the -xsession-errors file Fvwm-95: in function Read: <>file ' .fvwm95rc' not found in $HOME or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95 Fvwm-95:in function Read: trying to read system rc file Fvwm-95: in function Read:<> file 'system.fvwm95rc' not found in $HOME or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95 The symptoms are after logging in X then a blank screen (actually grey and white) shows up. After clicking the right mouse button a button box appears with default menu and exit. Moving the mouse around on the desktop did not locate the window. The file 'system.fvwm95rc was listed in both the $HOME directory and the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95 file. The permissions for 'system.fvwm95rc' include r for o,g,u. I could not locate a .fvwm95rc file in either $HOME or the X11 library file. FreeBSD version 2.2.1 The /etc/rc.local file has the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm && echo -n ' xdm' The .xsession file has the commands ~/.profile TZ=MST7MDT fvwm95 How can I get the fvwm to open a window? Jeff Ayres