On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:31:16PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > I've just switched on a new machine with suse 11.3. Apparently it > has bundled fvwm 2.5.26. > > I'm getting some errors using my old .fvwm2rc (happily running on > suse 9.2 with fvwm 2.5.10). E.g. no pager, no desktops etc. I > suspect some paths have changed.
I'd need to see this. > Before I look into it directly, I created a fresh dummy user, and started > a fvwm session from scratch. That comes out with some default theme, > but does not create any .fvwm2rc (or config, as I realize it should > now be called based on the man page). So I suspect it uses some > system default. So it will be trying to look for the config files under INITIALIZATION (see man fvwm), else it will default to using FVWM's in-built menu functionality providing the means to generate a per-user config. > It would be a good idea for me to look at that to merge in useful stuff. > But where is it based ? I suspect the /etc/X11/fvwm2/ directory was once a symlink to somewhere more meaningful to FVWM, although I couldn't say I don't use SuSE anymore, and have not done so for a good fourteen years or so. > The man page mentions 2+5 possible locations, in ~, /usr/local/share > and /etc. None of which exists. I have however found one in > /etc/X11/fvwn2/system.fvwmrc (which is even "signed" Thomas Adams). Yes, I remember updating it. I suspect there's two things going on here: * Almost certainly deprecated options. * The shipped file being in the wrong location on disk. If you send me the system.fvwmrc file anyway (the one which has my name on it), I'll happily convert it over to use 2.5.26+ syntax. I suspect there won't be many changes. Then we can sort out where on disk it should go. -- Thomas Adam
