Although I have been using fvwm as a window manager under gnome for
years (and much appreciating its excellent attributes), suddenly two
days ago (perhaps after altering some permissions in /tmp, trying to get
k3b to work properly, and maybe upgrading about four or five packages) I
found an odd pro
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:07:03PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> Yes I understand that ~/.fvwm is re-created when FVWM starts; however
> since I had deleted mine (actually moved it to ~/.fvwm.save) there's no
> config file in it. Nor is there any config file in any of the places
> in the group you l
On Jul 25, 2007 at 8:05 pm, Thomas Adam wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:52:02AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
| > 1. If I delete $HOME/.fvwm (so my config file is gone) then fvwm starts
| > under the gnome-session, although it complains about not being able to
| > find a config (or .fvwm2rc) file
On Jul 26, 2007 at 12:16 am, Thomas Adam wrote:
|
| > So I guess ConfigFvwmDefaults works. I
| > will try putting THAT file in ~/.fvwm (renaming it config) and see if
| > that works.
|
| _NO_ -- just leave ConfigFvwmDefaults alone... please? I suspect what's
| happening is that there's something
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:52:02AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> 1. If I delete $HOME/.fvwm (so my config file is gone) then fvwm starts
> under the gnome-session, although it complains about not being able to
> find a config (or .fvwm2rc) file. (What does fvwm use for a config in
> that case? I h
This is an update on this problem, which to summarize, is the following:
PROBLEM:
When I installed F7 about a month ago everything worked smoothly; all I
had to do was to give the "fvwm -s 0 --replace" command and since I had
created $HOME/.fvwm with my config file in it, everything worked,
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Here is yet another update, with somewhat positive results.
[I hope this information might be useful to other FVWM
afficianados.]
A summary of my original problem appears (far) below.
It turned out that the PROBLEM lay not with either FVWM or
GNOME, but (perhaps as Myles Green suggested) with Fe
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 04:15:37PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> [I now have an FVWM config file that I like, with pretty
> extensive comments. I would be happy to forward it to anyone
> who wants it. I also found it helpful to create a pdf file
> from the FVWM man page (using enscript to create a
