Re: Running fvwm95

["Alfie Costa" <agcosta@gis.net>]

On 25 Jan 99 at 18:22, Tom Persons <Tom@blast7.com> wrote:

{on having a bad install of fvwm95...}
> ...This is a new version of fvwm95, based on fvwm95-2.0.43a, with a
> few patches applied and with a few new or modified modules
> (FvwmTaskBar,FvwmWharf,FvwmScript...)
> 
> Installation should be as simple as:
> tar xvzf fvwm95-2.0.43b.tar.gz

Debian keeps a few init files and configs for X in different places than other 
Linux distributions.  Or the other distributions keep them in different places 
than Debian, depending how you look at it.  If you installed from a .gz and 
not a .deb package, the fvwm95 configs probably aren't where Debian X would 
be looking for them, and the results you've described might happen.

If this is the case, you can either figure out how the fvwm95 package differs 
from Debian's way of doing things, and make the needed changes in the config 
yourself; or uninstall it as best you can and try a .deb package, which should 
work well.  Possibly you can just install the .deb without trying to uninstall 
the other package, it may not matter; though there could be some leftover files 
taking up hard drive space from the .gz package.

You can find a .deb package of fvwm95 2.0.43b here:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/x11/fvwm95_2.0.43ba-7.deb

Hope this helps...