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Re: Broken fvwm install?
Stephen,
I appreciate that it might not take a lot to fix the package (from your
perspective), but I simply haven't got time to work on it. 99% of users
are using either XDMCP, in which case they don't need a local window
manager, or they are using the integrated Windows-based window manager
known as MultiWindow mode (use the -multiwindow parameter for XWin.exe).
The developer time/benefit ratio here is almost nill. You are more
than welcome to submit a fixed package for this.
Harold
Stephen Biggs wrote:
Again, it works, but it is missing a bunch of stuff and it doesn't
install itself correctly. The version on the cygwin package is way
behind the current version for other platforms, but if I can find the
proper icons file (which should have been included in the download or at
least as another download choice on the "setup" menu, no?), then things
would go much better.
On 23 May 2003 at 13:11, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Its probably broken because no one is maintaining it. I can't remember
if I was the one that made the fvwm package or if someone else sent me a
version to release. I seem to remember the latter. If it is broken,
then I should probably pull it from the list of package unless someone
wants to maintain it.
Can anybody confirm that it works? I will leave it up even if it
requires a little configuring to get it working.
Harold
Stephen Biggs wrote:
I downloaded the XFree86 cygwin version and the fvwm package.
The fvwm doesn't install itself as the window manager, so I changed the
line in startxwin.sh from "twm &" to "fvwm &". This caused it to load
but it failed to find any *.xpm files with a few hundred error messages.
I went to the fvwm website and downloaded the icons and this went a lot
better, but it is still missing a LOT of *.xpm files as well as "xload"
(which probably doesn't make sense on a Windows 98 system, but why does
the vanilla installation try to load it?)
Shouldn't the cygwin install take care of these issues? What am I
missing? There is NO documentation on what to do about these issues.