Re: FVWM: lost buttons

From: Richard Lister <ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:39:39 -0500

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:23:53 -0500
Chad Hall <chall_at_stdio.com>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: lost buttons':
> I've searched thru the mailing list archives, and haven't seen anyone address
> this problem. I need a way to restart fvwm2 via command line or something
> similar. I apparently have a buggy rc that will lose all changes to buttons
> after a while, so I'm left with the default middle button and nothing else.
> This means I can't restart via mouse1 on root. I have tried to bind keys as
> well, and all keymods get lost when this happens. This has been happening
> for about a year now, and it's stuck with me thru all the changes I've made
> to my .fvwm2rc...any advice would be appreciated.


Use the xsession program to start your window manager. This allows you
to stop and start the WM, or start a different WM, from an X application
without quitting X. I couldn't live without it!

From:
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/X11/contrib/applications/
  ftp://ftp2.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/

Ric

Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Wed Dec 16 1998 - 09:46:51 GMT

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