2009/8/2 Charlie <[email protected]>: > > Just a quick query. > > New to FVWM - been googling and RTFM for hours till my eyes are > bleeding and something must be just not registering. I have to ask or > not get it working at all. > > Using Debian - Testing and can't invoke FVWMconsole, not through the > module and not when I try to enter it into > either /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc or ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc and rebooting.
Well, you can add calls to FvwmConsole like this: AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmConsole ... if you wanted it to start when FVWM does (and restarts too). Or you can add it like this: AddToMenu foo + "FvwmConsole" Module FvwmConsole ... or you can bind it to a key: Key F12 A 4 Module FvwmConsole -terminal xterm -bg black -fg green etc. As to why it's not working for you, does FVWM log to ~/.xsession-errors? If so look there to try and find out. If that file doesn't exist, start FVWM from ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc (depending on how you start X) like this: exec fvwm > ~/.fvwm-errors 2>&1 Then check ~/.fvwm-errors when trying to start FvwmConsole. Other possibilities as to why it's not loading off the top of my head include buggering about with "ModulePath" within your config, but I am only guessing there as I've not seen what you've done to your config. Oh -- and as a nod to system management, please don't go editing /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc directly -- it's generally a good idea to do all of this on a per-user basis. -- Thomas Adam
