On 21 Aug 2002 00:14:21 +0200, Imre Vida wrote: > > i run my machine under Debian woody. > > When i tried to switch to fvwm i had problems running > fvwm (offical deb package v2.4.8). > First i could not get it started with xdm but was still able > to launch it from an xterm. Later on, however, i was not able > to launch it at all what ever i tried. > > Finally i decided to down load the source and compile it myself, > First i downloaded v.2.5.2 and it was running fine but later on > i thought it would be may be safer to have the stable version. > And now that i compiled and tried to run v2.4.9 i have exactly the > same problem. > > > There are two error messeges about fvwm not being able > to find a fontset: > [FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: WARNING -- can't get fontset 'fixed', trying > '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' > [FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: ERROR -- can't get fontset > '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' > > The xserver /xfontsel/ does know about these fonts so they are > definitely not missing (and the fontsever is running). > > > Originally i had xdm setup to start up the window manager. > In this case, after a blank window i got back to the login window > (while any other window man e.g. icewm, sawfish or even gnome-session > can be started without probs). > xdm.log says: > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested > (but i believe this is not about fvwm) > > I also tried to start fvwm from an xterm only xsession: > i got the above errormsg about the fontset and nothing > else hapens interestingly before the restart this worked > despite the errormsgs. > I tried this also as root - no difference. And run strace: i find > the same erromsgs but nothing else that would give me a cue what > is going on.
Three questions to you. 1) Did you built 2.4.x with --enable-multibyte? (run: fvwm-config -s) 2) What is your locale? (run: locale) 3) Does fvwm immediately exit? If no, do you get the root menu? Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
