Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:09:43 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: modelt20@canada.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users unable to select their own window manager in X. Message-ID: <20050829160943.GA10209@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050829123519.12498.fh052.wm@smtp.sc0.cp.net> References: <20050829123519.12498.fh052.wm@smtp.sc0.cp.net>
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--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:35:18AM -0700, modelt20@canada.com wrote: > Hello All: >=20 > Last week, I did a CVSup on all ports, and then did a > portupgrade over the weekend. The portupgrade completed > successfully, without significant errors. >=20 > Now, normal users are no longer able to set their own > window manager (e.g. fvwm2) in X, but logging in as > root, I can. The user's .xinitrc file has not changed > recently, but when the user launches X, all they get is > the grey hatched background with a black X for the > mouse pointer. No windows (clock, mail, task panel, > etc) appear. If I rename the user's .xinitrc file and > then start X, the standard 'xterm' window manager Check the ModulePath setting in ~/.fvwm2rc. This usually contains the version number, so after an upgrade FVWM2 won't be albe to find its modules. For example, in my ~/.fvwm2rc I have: ModulePath /usr/X11R6/libexec/fvwm/2.4.19/ If I were to upgrade to a newer version, I'd have to change this. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDEzNHEnfvsMMhpyURAmpaAJwMXOKOf2rib1M2t+zIFTQCEVC9qACcDAAN wE1z4C9dEBo0eFLZYvpepC8= =WHb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--
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