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Re: fvwm2 setup problem



> I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it.
> I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully.
> When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the 
> sudden the screen will go back to "Text mode". To understand what's
> going on, I run xinit first.  xinit started X server and displayed
> a window on monitor screen.  I can run xterm with no problem.
> But when I try to run fvwm2, I got the following message:
> 	can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
> I checked /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory for libXpm.so.4 and found the
> following:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    13 Jan 14 16:08 libXpm.so.4 -->libXpm.so.4.7
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 48716 Dec 17 00:53 libXpm.so.4.7
> 
> Can someone tell me why libXpm.so.4 could not be loaded?

See if there is a line with /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 in the
file /etc/ld.so.conf. If there isn't, add it. In both
cases, run the command "ldconfig", and try again.

Alexander Gieg

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