On 30 Dec 2003 23:47:34 -0800, Maggie McLoughlin wrote:
>
> Dear fvwm [Jason I guess],
This is a mailing list with (I think) hundreds of subscribers.
> Today I installed version 2.4.17 and had one curious problem (that
> did not exist in version 2.2 which I had been using for several years):
> Namely, commands like
> *FvwmButtons(2x2+0+0, Icon zero.xpm, Action "Desk 0 0")
> did not find the icon; I had to give the entire path name
> *FvwmButtons(2x2+0+0, Icon /home/icons/zero.xpm, Action "Desk 0 0")
> even though I had said
> ImagePath /home/icons:/usr/share/icons
> near the top of my .fvwm2rc file.
>
> Other uses of icons, as in
> Style XTerm Icon royalshell.xpm, SloppyFocus, NoTitle
> had no trouble finding /home/icons/royalshell.xpm.
>
> If you want to see the entire .fvwm2rc file, including a screen shot,
> you can find it on the web at
> http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html
> near the bottom. Also given there are the icons zero.xpm, one.xpm,
> two.xpm, and three.xpm that weren't found without full path names.
This report looks strange since almost everyone uses FvwmButtons without
such problems. I saved your zero.xpm in /data/images directory and
executed these commands in FvwmConsole:
ImagePath /data/images:+
*FvwmButtons-Test: (2x2+0+0, Icon zero.xpm, Action `GotoDesk 0 0`)
FvwmButtons FvwmButtons-Test
Everything works like expected in the latest 2.5.x and 2.4.x.
I think I know what is your problem, you configured fvwm to use the old
modules, this is why there is a communication problem between new fvwm
and old FvwmButtons regarding ImagePath.
Please remove ModulePath from your config. Do not comment this command
out or correct the path, just remove it completely. This command was
redundant even in 2.2.x. It makes some sence to use ModulePath in 2.5.x
if you write your own perl-based fvwm module and place it in, say,
~/.fvwm/modules directory. But then the path should always be prepended
with "+:" to include the built-in path to the modules, i.e.:
ModulePath +:$FVWM_USERDIR/modules # $[FVWM_USERDIR] works here too
There are other things in your configuration that may be converted to a
new syntax if you like this (please see the man pages then).
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Dec 31 2003 - 08:06:27 GMT