Re: FVWM: Red Hat RPM of 2.40?

From: Joey Hess <joey_at_tausq.ithaca.ny.us>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:58:50 -0500 (EST)

> I installed RH 2.1 this weekend. It came with 1.24 but I wanted to use
> 2.xx. I was visiting red hat's ftp site and found what appears to be an RPM
> of 2.40. Does anybody know anything about this?
>
> I ftp'd it and installed it but it seems to put an old style .fvwmrc file
> on my disk. I guess I should say that I am not convinced that infact this
> is 2.40 because it does not seem to digest my new style .fvwmrc file (as
> .fvwmrc or as .fvwm2rc) It gives me screens and screens of errors and none
> of the stuff in the config file seem to have effect.
>
> Is there some way I can invoke it to get it to tell me the version?

fvwm[2] -version? :-)

I'm familiar with that rpm, I had a bad experience with it when I first
wanted to install fvwm2. I don't think it comes with any of the modules,
and I don't know what version it really is, but it seemed very messed up
to me.

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Received on Tue Mar 12 1996 - 11:59:15 GMT

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