Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2002 23:21:54 -0700, Tim Hanson wrote:
>
>>I don't know whether I'm having trouble with fvwm-themes or it's having
>>trouble with me. I have the SuSE distro, which bundles 2.4.8. It also
>>bundles fvwm-themes. The problem is that I get an error on star,
>><<ERROR>> can't open display.
>>
>>Does fvwm-themes look for fvwm2 or just fvwm? I heard a while back that
>>fvwm2 was going to be renamed back to fvwm and if so, someone should tell
>>SuSE that so things that depend on having the program don't break.
>
>
> Ok, after some tricky search I finally found what you have:
>
> http://www.suse.de/de/private/products/suse_linux/i386/packages_professional/index_all.html
>
> They ship very old fvwm-themes-0.4.2, but it may work ok with fvwm-2.4.8
> probably, I don't know.
>
> You may install fvwm-themes-0.6.1 from sources, it works well with 2.4.8.
> 2.4.8 has both executable names fvwm and fvwm2, so don't worry about this.
>
> Now, to your problem. Do you start fvwm-themes-start instead of startx or
> xinit? See /usr/share/doc/packages/fvwm-themes/README .
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
Okay, that did the trick. I ended up modifying startx and calling it something
else, so I don't need to go editing .xinitrc every time I want to do something.
I hope your docs explain how to take one's present .fvwm2rc and modify it to suit.
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Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 19:18:15 BST