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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: fvwm problems
To: kevinm@kci.wayne.edu
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:45:02 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <9608011717.AA12733@kci.wayne.edu> from Kevin McEnhill at "Aug 1, 96 06:45:20 am"
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> Howdy one and all,
> 
> I downloaded fvwm-2.0.41.tar from ftp.freebsd.org, and out of the 
> 2.1.5 packages directory. I unpacked it, took a quick look-see at the 
> various config files and tried to run it. useing the 'startx' 
> command, I get some windows but no border around them and no windows 
> manager at all. When I exit XWindows, I find that the last comment 
> before the screen switches to a graphical mode to be something like;
> 
> Can't find libXpm.so.4.6
> 
> So using that as a clue I take a look at /usr/X11R6/lib and find file 
> names of the "lib???.so.6.0" 
> 
> Should I be looking for the source package? Is there a way to tell 
> fvwm to use the files I have (the <stuff>.so.6.0)? Any sugestions?

fvwm and fvwm95 require the Xpm (X pixmap) package which you can either
install as a package using pkg_add - you used pkg_add to install
fvwm, didn't you ? - or compile it from the ports directory in which case
libXpm is built prior to fvwm since xpm is in the dependency list.


> 
> < Insert witty phrase here >  kevinm@kci.wayne.edu <Kevin McEnhill>
> 

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