Thanks for your response,
I had just added Xemacs and found that I did not have a .Xdefaults in
my home dir when I started. I copied one in and did an:
xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
and then everything worked on the fvwm display.
Cordially,
Greg.
> From <_at_corp-200.dfki.uni-kl.de:burt_at_dfki.uni-kl.de> Thu Aug 22 12:57:56 1996
> Organization: DFKI Kaiserslautern GmbH, D 67663 Kaiserslautern
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:56:23 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Alastair Burt <burt_at_dfki.uni-kl.de>
> To: "Gregory M. Whittaker" <greg_at_mitre.org>
> Subject: Trying to run Xemacs on a SUN Ultra 1 under fvwm
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> > Currently calling xemacs with my display server running fvwm I get,
> >
> > Initialization error: Invalid geometry resource
> >
> > however, when operating on my Openwindows display Xemacs runs fine.
> >
> > I am not familiar with fvwm, and am not sure where it expects my
> > resources to be defined. If you can give me any pointers to likely
> > causes of this error or how it might be debugged or eliminated
> > please respond. In the meantime I will try creating a simpler
> > .emacs file.
>
> I am not sure I can be of much help. All I know is that fvwm picks up my
> resources from ~/.fvwm (or ~/.fvwm2rc if using version 2). If this file
> does not exist it will look for system defaults. These could be anywhere.
> Good places to look are /usr/lib/X11/fvwm/.fvwm2rc or
> /usr/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc (ours happens to be in
> /opt/X11/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc).
>
> --- alastair
>
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