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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 08:54:38 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: fvwm 2 and virtual wm
Message-ID:  <19970910085437.00742@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970909141459.18848@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 02:14:59PM %2B0200
References:  <199709081307.PAA15908@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970909081608.42416@lemis.com> <19970909101339.55748@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970909175947.16957@lemis.com> <19970909141459.18848@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 02:14:59PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 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.

What version are you using?  I've just checked on the 2.2.2 CD-ROM,
and fvwm2 writes to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2.

Greg




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