My guess is that you are calling the window manager like this (let me
know if I'm wrong):

exec fvwm2

The problem with this is that Apple X11 doesn't read in the Fink
environment when it starts.  The Apple X11 section of the X11 docs talks
about this, and other issues:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#apple-binary

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:04, Don Lavelle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a hard time getting a window manager other than Apple's to 
> run with their X11 implementation.  I keep getting windows with no 
> title bars or resize boxes, etc.  However, if I manually start the 
> window manager from within X11, it works fine.  I edited my .xinitrc to 
> just read the command for the window manager, i.e. blackbox, and I also 
> tried copying /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc and changing 
> it.  No luck.
> 
> I'm using Apple X11 Beta 3.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Don Lavelle
> 
> 
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