Bertie writes:
> I use Slackware 7 with fvwm95-2.0.43b.
> It is fine on the whole but I think I have discovered a bug with
> scrolling: I cannot mouse-drag the scroller thumb on the left of any
> xterm shell window. Sometimes, but not always I can scroll with
> SHIFT+PAGEUP and SHIFT+PAGEDOWN. This has not bothered me in the past
> but now I want to use XFM and
> double click on, say, an image file and get it displayed under an
> appropriate viewer that I can configure with $HOME/.xfm/xfmrc. But for
> this to be of any use I need to be able to scroll through some rather
> large directories.
To me, this sounds like the standard behaviour of old X applications
like xterm, xfm, and friends. Their scrollbars do not behave like
scrollbars in Motif, tcl/tk, and so on. Instead, you click with the
left mouse button to scroll down, right mouse button to scroll ab, and
you can drag with the *middle* mouse button.
If you want a standard scrollbar, try rxvt instead of xterm. Of
course, this won't help with xfm.
> So the questions are (1) Will upgrading cure the bug?
Upgrading fvwm won't help, since this is not an window manager
problem. Window managers manage windows, not their contents.
> (2) Can I upgrade just by downloading and installing a later version
> without first uninstalling the existing version?
If you install from the source, you should be able to specify
different directories for the modules and the manpages. On SuSE
systems, you can have fvwm1 and fvwm2 at the same time.
> (3) What precautions do I need to take about my existing
> configuration files such as the .fvm95rc files?
Make a backup copy before you start fiddling with it. But since the
name of the new config file is .fvwm2rc, even this shouldn't be
necessary.
Hope this helps,
Rainer
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Received on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 23:33:13 GMT