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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!werple.net.au!gfm From: gfm@werple.net.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: fvwm not executing .fvwmrc under 2.1 Date: 15 Jan 1996 02:42:10 GMT Organization: Werple Internet, Melbourne Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4dceu2$9oo@eplet.mira.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.mira.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Since FreeBSD 2.0.5 was released, I have gone through the following steps: 2.0 upgrade to 2.0.5 upgrade to 2.1 wipe disk and install a brand new 2.1 I previously had XFree86 and fvwm that I had built myself from source. It worked correctly up to the last step above. I backed up relevant parts of my hard disk, wiped it, installed 2.1 from scratch including the X and fvwm packages, restored my home directory (including my .fvwmrc) from backup. Now when I start fvwm (either from logging in via xdm or by explicitly running X after logging in), fvwm doesn't execute all of the startup stuff from my .fvwmrc. It is the same version of fvwm (1.24r) and the programs that it tries to execute do exist and are on my path. It does execute some of my startup stuff (xearth as my root window) but not anything else - no xterms, no xbiff, no GoodStuff. If I use the "left mouse button on the root window" menu, I can start an xterm. I can't see anything different about the way xearth is started from the way the xterms are started. Can anybody suggest why xearth works but the rest doesn't? Thanks for any help you can give me, Graham