Re: Problems with clean install of fvwm

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:43:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:21:11PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > tracker.debian.org tells me that there is a default configuration file in
> >   https://sources.debian.org/data/main/f/fvwm/1:2.6.7-3/default-config/config
> > which is the download view of
> >   https://sources.debian.org/src/fvwm/1:2.6.7-3/default-config/config/
> > 
> > It looks like a clean starting point for modification and enhancement.
> > I'd put it on disk as: ~/.fvwm2rc
> 
> >From the fvwm(1) man page:
> 
>        Here is the complete list of all
>        file locations queried in the default installation (only the first
>        found file is used):
> 
>            $HOME/.fvwm/config
>            /usr/local/share/fvwm/config
> 
>            $HOME/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc
>            $HOME/.fvwm2rc
>            /usr/local/share/fvwm/.fvwm2rc
>            /usr/local/share/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc
>            /etc/system.fvwm2rc

Now, /usr/local isn't a good place for distribution files. For the
Debian-distributed fvwm I'd expect things to be in /usr/share (and
so on). And yes, you'll find things in /usr/share, except that
config is "hidden" in a sub-directory, like so:

  /usr/share/fvwm/default-config/config

(as I noted in my previous post, btw). Probably to avoid interfering
with an already existing local config, I don't know.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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