On 03 Sep 2002 12:02:41 +0000, Bruce M Beach wrote:
> 
> 1)  I am at this point using 2.5.2 more or less because I have to.
>     I used a very early version of fvmw for years with no problems
>     and then upgraded to xwindows 4.2 which caused significant problems
>     with the mouse-menu interaction. An upgrade to fvwm-2.4.8 did not
>     solve the problems whereas the alpha version fvwm-2.5.2 did. I've
>     used fvwm-2.5.2 for a while now and for my use it works fine.
>     With fvwm-2.5.3 the problems started again.

I think your short description (in another thread) is not enough to
understand the problem. Please add more details to that message.
What is the "mouse-menu" problem and what to do exactly to reproduce it.

> 2)  It looks like the following are not getting execute permission
>     when installed. For instance:
>         sh-2.05b# fvwm-bug
>         sh: /usr/local/bin/fvwm-bug: Permission denied
>     A chmod fixes it.
> 
>    fvwm-bug
>    fvwm-config
>    fvwm-convert-2.4
>    fvwm-convert-2.6
>    fvwm-menu-desktop
>    fvwm-menu-directory
>    fvwm-menu-headlines
>    fvwm-menu-xlock
>    fvwm-perllib

Seems unlikely to me that they are installed without a+x.
Please do the following:

  #cd fvwm_installation_dir
  cd bin/
  make uninstall  # as root
  make
  make install  # as root

Then send the output of "make install" and "ls -l /usr/local/bin/fvwm-*".

> 3) I built with the following configure options
>        --enable-debug-msgs
>        --enable-command-log
>    and it builds fine but I don't understand where the messages
>    get piped to. syslogd? an fvwm console?

This depends on how you start the fvwm executable. If you call it in
~/.xinitrc without redirection to a file, the output will be together
with the X output, possibly on your virtual console.

Display managers like xdm/gdm/kdm may redirect the output to a file.

I don't think these debugging options are very useful to you, the output
is noisy and hides the real error messages that may appear on stderr.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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