Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

(i begin to owe Greg Wooledge half a sysadmin salary and half one for a
geriatric nurse)

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Error messages, if there are any, should be in ~/.xsession-errors

  $ cat ~/.xsession-errors
  Cannot parse color "dtcolor5"
  couldn't create gradient
  Cannot parse color "dtcolor5"
  couldn't create gradient
  sh: 1: fvwm-menu-xlock: not found
  sh: 1: fvwm-menu-xlock: not found
  sh: 1: xdg_menu: not found
  [fvwm][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'FvwmConsole' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8'
  [fvwm][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'FvwmBanner' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8'
  [fvwm][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'FvwmButtons' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8'
  [fvwm][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'FvwmCommandS' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8'
  /usr/share/X11/fvwm2/pixmaps/slate.gif is a 128x128 GIF87a image with 256 colors
    Default gamma for IRGB image is  2.20
    Compressing colormap...didn't find evidence of prior run.
  6 unique colors
    Building XImage...done
  [fvwm][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'FvwmConsole' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8'
  $

Indeed, there is no directory /usr/lib/fvwm .
In Debian 11 there was /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8 utterly filled with Fvwm* files.

Four of five fingers point to me and my ~/.fvwm2rc":

  ModulePath /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8

I see traces that i adjusted this multiple times over the years:
/usr/lib/X11/fvwm2 , /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.5 , /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8.

So what's its name this year ?

  $ find /usr -name FvwmPager
  /usr/libexec/fvwm2/2.7.0/FvwmPager


It's a bit late in the evening for system-wide experiments.
I will see tomorrow whether i can omit the ModulePath line or whether i
have to point it to /usr/libexec/fvwm2/2.7.0 .

Further i should begin to learn what the following lines in my ~/.fvwm2rc
mean:

  Colorset 3 fg black, bg rgb:c8/d3/e5, VGradient 100 dtcolor5 rgb:c8/d3/e5
  ...
  Colorset 6 fg black, bg rgb:b4/aa/94, VGradient 100 dtcolor5 rgb:b4/aa/94
  ...
  PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-xlock --special-first'
  PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-xlock --special-first --name=XSaverMenu -- -nolock'
  ...
  PipeRead 'xdg_menu --charset UTF-8 --format fvwm2'

I guess that they fail since a dozen years at least. :))
As said, 20+ years of migration from machine to machine. Oh nostalgy.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas