On 21 Aug 2002 00:14:21 +0200, Imre Vida wrote:
>
> 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.
Three questions to you.
1) Did you built 2.4.x with --enable-multibyte? (run: fvwm-config -s)
2) What is your locale? (run: locale)
3) Does fvwm immediately exit? If no, do you get the root menu?
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Aug 21 2002 - 06:16:49 BST