Steve Michnick <michnick_at_asl.dl.nec.com> writes:
> I've recently compiled fvwm2 and really like the package. I'm getting
> ready to roll this out to the user community and ran into a problem
> getting the system-wide defaults to be picked up.
> In the man page it states,
> "First, fvwm will search for a file named .fvwm2rc (or .fvwmrc based
> on how it was compiled - .fvwm2rc is the default) in the users home
> directory. Failing that, it will look for /usr/lib/X11/fvwm/.fvwm2rc
> for system-wide defaults. If that file is not found, fvwm will be
> basically useless."
> So I copied a generic .fvwm2rc file to /usr/lib/X11/fvwm/.fvwm2rc. I
> moved my working .fvwm2rc out of the way and then reinitiated fvwm2.
> The restart did not pick up the system-wide defaults as stated. Is
> there some work around for this. It's really important that there be
> a system default file, but as it stands right now it doesn't seem to
> work.
This seems to be the question of the day.
My advice is to create a shell called "fvwm2". Put the shell in the
users PATH, not the fvwm2 binary. If the user has no $HOME/.fvwm2rc,
create one using your generic file.
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Received on Mon Jun 24 1996 - 13:47:57 BST