Re: Window Manager Problem
This is just a guess, but are you running debian 1.2?
look in your /etc/ld.so.conf, check if there is a line in it, such as
/usr/X11R6/lib
this tells the dynamic linker to look in that directory for shared libs,
i.e the xpm library you need.
Shaya
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Johnny Stevenson wrote:
> Please can you help:
>
> I have a problem with the fvwm window manager, it cannot load
> libXpm.so.4.
>
> When I run startx, X starts and displays the grey screen, then drops
> back down to the terminal.
>
> I then tried running fvwm from the terminal and got an error:
>
> fvwm: couldnt load libXpm.so.4
>
> I checked and the xpm4.7 package is installed, reinstalled it anyway,
> then reinstalled the fvwm packages and still got the same answer.
>
> Unless anyone has any suggestions I feel that it must be a problem with
> the hard drive somewhere. So if I dont hear anything in the next week I
> will reformat and see if that fixes it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
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>
> John Stevenson 3rd Yr BSc Soft. Eng.
> ** Staff/Student Representative **
> E-mail : J.P.Stevenson@ncl.ac.uk
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