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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:14:23 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: fvwm 2 and virtual wm
Message-ID:  <19970910091423.11286@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970910085437.00742@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 08:54:38AM %2B0930
References:  <199709081307.PAA15908@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970909081608.42416@lemis.com> <19970909101339.55748@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970909175947.16957@lemis.com> <19970909141459.18848@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970910085437.00742@lemis.com>

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On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 08:54:38AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 02:14:59PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 05:59:47PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 08:16:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 03:07:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Some users at my site have trouble using fvwm 2.043.
> >>>>> Maybe they have a wrong (pre 2.0 .fvwmrc)?
> >>>>
> >>>> Quite possibly.  In fact, I think that old versions of 2.x used the
> >>>> old config file; I have one from BSDI.  The new version is *very*
> >>>> different, and it would take a couple of hours to change a moderate
> >>>> sized .fvwmrc to an .fvwm2rc.
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm not very familiar with fvwm and it's different incarnations.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Couls anyone help?
> >>>>
> >>>> One of the things that I'm collecting with the config files is a base
> >>>> .fvwm2rc.  I've put one up on
> >>>> ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/config/.fvwm2rc.  It contains local
> >>>> definitions and will definitely need modification.
> >>>
> >>> The error message is
> >>>
> >>> FvwmPager Version 1.24r should only be executed by fvwm!
> >>>
> >>> Looks like fvwm (1.24) has been overwritten by fvwm2 (?!)
> >>
> >> Looks more like an incorrect path to me:
> >>
> >> $ locate FvwmPager
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/FvwmPager
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/FvwmPager
> >
> > I solved it. It was the mess that pkg_add overwrites /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm
> > each time when you install fvwm-1.24r resp. fvwm-2.0.45, which ever
> > being the latest.
> 
> What version are you using?  I've just checked on the 2.2.2 CD-ROM,
> and fvwm2 writes to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2.
> 
> Greg

I was using 2.0.45 (the package from packages-2.2.2) Or was I wrong?
Maybe I got confused since we had symbolic links in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
pointing to /usr/local/X11 (NFS environment). 


-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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