Hi,
i run my machine under Debian woody.
When i tried to switch to fvwm i had problems running
fvwm (offical deb package v2.4.8).
First i could not get it started with xdm but was still able
to launch it from an xterm. Later on, however, i was not able
to launch it at all what ever i tried.
Finally i decided to down load the source and compile it myself,
First i downloaded v.2.5.2 and it was running fine but later on
i thought it would be may be safer to have the stable version.
And now that i compiled and tried to run v2.4.9 i have exactly the
same problem.
There are two error messeges about fvwm not being able
to find a fontset:
[FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: WARNING -- can't get fontset 'fixed', trying
'-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
[FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: ERROR -- can't get fontset
'-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
The xserver /xfontsel/ does know about these fonts so they are
definitely not missing (and the fontsever is running).
Originally i had xdm setup to start up the window manager.
In this case, after a blank window i got back to the login window
(while any other window man e.g. icewm, sawfish or even gnome-session
can be started without probs).
xdm.log says:
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested
(but i believe this is not about fvwm)
I also tried to start fvwm from an xterm only xsession:
i got the above errormsg about the fontset and nothing
else hapens interestingly before the restart this worked
despite the errormsgs.
I tried this also as root - no difference. And run strace: i find
the same erromsgs but nothing else that would give me a cue what
is going on.
I hope some of you do have an idea what could the problem
imre
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Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 17:19:23 BST