Re: FVWM: RedHat 8.0 - invisible menus

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:59:19 +0000

On 20 Feb 2003 09:25:40 -0800, Glenn W. Bach wrote:
>
> The problem I saw was that the menu window was drawn with the correct
> foreground color, but the text within the menu window was never visible
> (that is what generated all of the X errors I think).
>
> I found out, though, that the problem has something to do with the way
> redhat set up their package. I had used thier RPM spec file to generate
> new RPMS from the latest source. What I ended up doing was compiling it
> myself with minimal configuration changes (specifying prefix only).
> After doing this, everything works fine.
>
> I'm going to try to adjust thier RPM spec file configuration to see if I
> can generate a working fvwm RPM.

Please don't do this. There is no any reason to continue this old "fvwm2"
naming scheme. The package and the executable are named "fvwm".

To generate a good rpm from any source tarball, just run "make rpm-dist".

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Feb 20 2003 - 12:01:00 GMT

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