FVWM: Re: FVWM: mandrake - missing icons

From: Kostal <zkosty_at_seznam.cz>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:47:57 +0200 (CEST)

> > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:08, Kostal wrote:

> > Hi!
> > I have recently installed fvwm2 on Mandrake 9.1 but I can't see any
> > icons (in the menu and in window decorations). I made double sure that
> > XPM support is on - during ./configure - it does not report any errors.
> > However, after running startx, I get a full page or messages as "can't
> > read /xxx/yyy/fvwm2icons/abc.xpm". I also made sure the xpm files are
> > readable for everyone.
> >
> > I also am running RedHat9.0 on the same machine, with identical
> > .fvwm2rc file, and there everything is ok. However, on RedHat I
> > installed fvwm2 from a rpm file, while on Mandrake I compiled it from
> > source.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Jan Kostal
> >
> >
> > > Does the ImagePath reflect where the icons actually are on your =
> > Mandrake
> > > system? It sounds to me that your ImagePath is not set up correctly.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Kostal <zkosty_at_seznam.cz> writes:
> > Well, it is not that. I made **** sure the ImagePath was correct. I
> > also tried to write the image file names with full path name to avoid
> > any problem in the image path - same results.
> > thanks
> > Jan
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> Make sure the files in question really are xpm files.
>
> Do:
>
> file xxx.xpm
>
> you should see:
>
> home> file ~/icons/mini.fvwm.xpm
> /home/dane/icons/mini.fvwm.xpm: X pixmap image text
>
> --
> Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
> --


It is on my home computer so I will test that as soon as I am at home, however, those files are installed from the standard package fvwm-icons. Do you still think they may not be real xpm files?
Jan Kostal

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