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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:14:59 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: fvwm 2 and virtual wm
Message-ID:  <19970909141459.18848@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970909175947.16957@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 05:59:47PM %2B0930
References:  <199709081307.PAA15908@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970909081608.42416@lemis.com> <19970909101339.55748@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970909175947.16957@lemis.com>

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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 05:59:47PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 08:16:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 03:07:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Some users at my site have trouble using fvwm 2.043.
> >>> Maybe they have a wrong (pre 2.0 .fvwmrc)?
> >>
> >> Quite possibly.  In fact, I think that old versions of 2.x used the
> >> old config file; I have one from BSDI.  The new version is *very*
> >> different, and it would take a couple of hours to change a moderate
> >> sized .fvwmrc to an .fvwm2rc.
> >>
> >>> I'm not very familiar with fvwm and it's different incarnations.
> >>>
> >>> Couls anyone help?
> >>
> >> One of the things that I'm collecting with the config files is a base
> >> .fvwm2rc.  I've put one up on
> >> ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/config/.fvwm2rc.  It contains local
> >> definitions and will definitely need modification.
> >
> > The error message is
> >
> > FvwmPager Version 1.24r should only be executed by fvwm!
> >
> > Looks like fvwm (1.24) has been overwritten by fvwm2 (?!)
> 
> Looks more like an incorrect path to me:
> 
> $ locate FvwmPager
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/FvwmPager
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/FvwmPager

I solved it. It was the mess that pkg_add overwrites /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm
each time when you install fvwm-1.24r resp. fvwm-2.0.45, which ever
being the latest.

> 
> Check out the paths at the top of the .fvwmrc.
> 
> Greg

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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