Re: FVWM: fvwm2-2.2.4 Modules Don't Work under Solaris 2.6

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 20:30:18 -0400

Paul Ellis <paule_at_zantaz.com> writes:
> Friends -
>
> I like fvwm/fvwm2 a lot and have generally used both on Solaris and Linux
> w/o problems. *But* on my Solaris 2.6 box, the basic fvwm2 binary (ver
> 2.2.4) starts up okay but ALL modules Fail to run properly. They fail with
> message like this even though the modules were built, installed in correct
> directory and have CORRECT permissions:
>
> [FVWM] [executeModule]: <<ERROR>> Execution of module failed:
> /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager
> Permission denied.

When fvwm2 produces this message, it has just done a fork/execvp.
The execvp should transfer control to the module, but in your case
the execvp failed, and fvwm printed this message.

The permission denied comes from the OS, so there must be some kind
of permission problem.

If you just try to run "/usr/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager" outside fvwm
does that work? (It won't run, but it should give you a message
not "permission denied".)

There shouldn't be a newline between "failed:" and
"/usr/lib/X11/fvwm2/FvwmPager". I'm guessing that you just put that
there for email purposes...

> **--Furthermore, the funtion I consider Most indespensible (ability to move
> between virtual desktops) appears not to have even been included with the
> source distribution (downloaded from fvwm.org). That function appears to be
> in module: WindowsDesk
> but there's no such module built by the installation. (configure/make/make
> install)

I don't know what the WindowsDesk module is. All Fvwm module names
start with Fvwm. Perhaps thats a module alias you use?
A common way to move between virtual desktops is FvwmPager,
but it can be done other ways, mouse, keyboard, menu. Not that I'm
suggesting that you don't need the modules.

> *-Can anybody help me get these modules to work? fvwm2 leans so heavily on
> the modules that without them it's no use at all. Plus CDE is nasty and I'm
> stuck with it for now...

I had to use CDE for a day or 2, a few years back. I didn't like
it much either.

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