From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 00:14:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA12726 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA12721 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA09459; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:43:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970910164344.11807@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:43:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fvwm 2 and virtual wm 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> <19970910091423.11286@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19970910091423.11286@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 09:14:23AM +0200 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 09:14:23AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > 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). That might be the problem. Certainly I can't find anything wrong with the package. Greg