"Nikolaj G." wrote:
>
> Hi, so its weekend and Im going for the final round - to make the themes
> work.
> System: RedHat 7.0, have fvwm-2.4.0 from source, fvwm-themes-base-0.5.0
> and fvwm-themes-extra-0.5.0.tar.gz from
Well redhat 7.0 is flawed and has a broken glibc I believe. Upgrade to
7.1 at least.
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1738&release_id=47495
>
> I made
>
> 1. configure
> 2. make
>
> , as local user and
>
> make install
>
> , as root.
>
> Result:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> fvwm-themes is successfully installed.
> themes and data: in /usr/local/share/fvwm
> shell scripts: in /usr/local/bin
> Put fvwm-themes-start as the last command of
> .Xclients/.xinitrc/.xsession
> ==============================================================================
Note that last part about .xinitrc!!
> , ok, so base and themes-extra are installed with the same user, namely
> root. So I stop Fvwm2 and run directly (as root)
> /usr/local/bin/fvwm-themes-start and get this error:
>
> [FVWM-Themes]: Starting Fvwm under th emain fvwm-themes session.
> [FVWM][main]: <<error>> Can't open DISPLAY
>
> , I get the same error, when I try as local user. Also I tried to "make
> install" as local user, but then I have to make a lot of "chown" of
>
> /usr/local/bin
> /usr/local/share/man
> /usr/local/share/man/man1
No need for chown of any files there.
>
> etc can't remember the rest, is that right?
Nope! Try doing "startx fvwm2 -f themes-rc"
Hope this helps.
Alex
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Received on Sun Sep 02 2001 - 09:56:31 BST