On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Carter Bond wrote:
> Now the trouble that I(and a number of Linux freaks in Albuquerque New
> Mexico, many of whom proported to be paid to deal with X-windows systems)
> have had is with the configuration of the X-windows system(XFree86 3.3 that
> comes with Red Hat 4.2).
>
> Problem #1
> "What resources are used with TheNextLevel"
Way too many... I think that TheNextLevel makes a mockery of fvwm95 and
redhat in general, I have no idea why they like it so much.
> Problem #2:
> "Getting TheNextLevel to work with fvwm2"
>
> Fvwm95 was interesting for about 10 minutes. But I'm want a more
> traditional X-windows look, specifically fvwm2. But I also want the great
> features of TheNextLevel. This shouldn't be a problem, because TheNextLevel
> works with fvwm2(theoretically). I have re-written the above .Xclients file:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if [ -n "$RCFILE" ]; then
> FVWMOPTIONS="-f 'FvwmM4 -debug $RCFILE'"
^^^^
change this to -cmd
This was a mistake that hasn't been fixed in the man pages yet... The -cmd
option should be used to invoke commands or modules from the command line.
> When I do the startx command, the whole thing crashes horribly. The
> following .FVWM2-error file is created:
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> [FVWM][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'ELF' in ModulePath
> '/usr/lib/fvwm2'
that's precisely what the problem looks like :)
-peace
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Received on Sat Jul 19 1997 - 22:42:28 BST