Re: FVWM: Gnome2 panel and fvwm 2.4.15

From: Subba Rao <subba9_at_cablespeed.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 21:31:40 -0500

On 0, Klaus Umbach <Klaus.Umbach_at_doppelhertz.homelinux.org> wrote:
> fvwm 2.5.5 works perfectly here with gnome2.2.
> You may hav to put
>
> Style *panel* NoTitle, NoHandles, Borderwidth 0
>
> in your configuration.
>
> metacity is such a poor windowmanager, fvwm is the best alternative.
> I guess it's even the only one, that realy works.
>
>
> Klaus
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:11:58PM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:09:32AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> > > I have upgraded my Debian system with Gnome 2.2 version. Also I have downloaded
> > > the Fvwm 2.4.15 source. After compiling and installing the newer fvwm2 I logged
> > > into Debian via GDM. My .xsession invokes gnome-panel before 'exec fvwm2'.
> > > This however is not happening. Fvwm starts fine. Why am I not seeing the
> > > Gnome panel?
> > >
> > > When I invoke Gnome panel from command line, the panel docks only to the first
> > > desktop. When I switch to other desktops, the panel does not stick along.
> > >
> > > The following is my config.h for my fvwm source. Is there something that I
> > > am missing that causes this behaviour?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> >
> > FVWM 2.4.x is GNONME 1 compliant. FVWM 2.5.x "is" EWMH compliant.
> > EWMH is a new spec. used by KDE >= 2 and GNOME >= 2.
> >
>

Where do you invoke the gnome-panel though? I have now upgrade fvwm to version
2.5.5. My .xsession has gnome-panel defined but it does not appear on startup.
I have to manually start it up on command line. Is gnome-panel invoked from
the .fvwm2rc or from .xsession?

Thank you.

-- 
Subba Rao
subba9_at_cablespeed.com
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Received on Sun Feb 16 2003 - 20:33:53 GMT

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