Re: FVWM: can't run some programs from fvwm2 menus or FvwmButtons

From: Pete Forman <gsez020_at_compo.bedford.waii.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:21:13 +0100

adg_at_cmu.edu writes:
> I'm running fvwm 2.0.46 on an SGI Indy (IRIX5.3). I can't run some
> programs from either the fvwm menus or FvwmButtons.

For symptoms check your error log, which may be called xdm-errors. If
you can't find it, alter your startup file (.xsession or whatever) to
send the messages to a known place.

    fvwm2 > ~/fvwm2.log 2>&1

Alternatively at the start of .xsession.

    exec > ~/xsession.log 2>&1


A common cause of programs running from the command line but not under
a window manager is lack of environment variables. I find it useful
to be able to dump fvwm's environment with a entry in the Quit-Verify
menu in .fvwm2rc.

+ "Dump environment" Exec set > $HOME/fvwm.env

This can be compared against "set" run from the command line.
-- 
Pete Forman
Western Geophysical
pete.forman_at_bedford.waii.com
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Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 02:24:10 BST

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