Re: FVWM: Newbie near from nervous breakdown

From: Erik Steffl <steffl_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:09:52 -0800

Benjamin SCHWARZ wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running fvwm on top of a debian linux. I apt-get installed fvwm but it
> didn't give me all I expected. After a day of checking man and mailing-list I
> dowloaded the V2.4.5 from the fvwm site, compiled and installed it.
> Now I spent my day configuring it and there are still things to Fix. Maybe
> you have clues for me:
>
> 1. the version (V 2.2.5) apt-get installed by debian dynamically created
> menus. I mean, if I installed an application, after restarting fvwm I could
> see the new application in my popup menus.
> I have a little Idea of the way it achieved that, but I could not make it
> work on my 2.4.5...
> I saw something with Fvwm-menu-desktop, but it adresses only menus dealing
> with gnome or kde... I'd like it to work more generaly with Debian. It seems
> debian places every interisting information in /usr/lib/menu. Someone knows
> how to do ?

  2.4.x does the same, the difference is that there are slight changes
which files are read upon startup. I had a similar problem caused by a
config file I had in my home directory that wasn't used by 2.2 version
but is used by 2.4. Try to see which config files are read, use strace
and search for ^open. It should use the system config files in
/etc/X11/fvwm (you can see which one contains menu and check whether
that one is read).

        erik
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Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 13:10:39 GMT

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