Re: FVWM: fvwm2rc + restart

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:50:11 +0000

On 03 Apr 2002 15:30:54 +0100, Tim Downie wrote:
>
> Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>
> >On 03 Apr 2002 08:43:12 +0200, szonyi calin wrote:
> >>One of the annoing things of doing restart is that
> >>fvwm allways seem to start on the firs page of the
> >>desk and you have to change the desk (page) to get
> >>back where you were before restart.
> >>
> >
> > Restart preserves the current page and desk. And many other global and
> > window attributes like window shade-ness.
> >
> > You probably use "Restart --dont-preserve-state". Don't use this switch
> > if you like to preserve the state before Restart.
> >
>
> I find the same problem as szonyi but I certainly don't use
> --dont-preserve-state
>
> I use
> Restart fvwm2

This is generally incorrect. Starting from 2.3.x it should be simply
"Restart". I can only guess what "Restart fvwm2" does on your sistem.
It depends on your $PATH if you have more than one installation. There
are also other issues described in the man page. Please use the correct
form "Restart". Unless you want to restart to a different WM, of course.

> enabled via pop up menus
> and If I use
> Restart --preserve-state
> that doesn't help either.

I hope you use 2.4.x or greater. I can't reproduce this problem.

Is it possible your home directory is not writable? This is needed to
create the restart state file.

Open FvwmConsole window and type in it:

  Exec xmessage $v # or "Exec echo $v" if you don't have xmessage
  Style FvwmConsole Sticky # this is good to have in .fvwm2rc
  GotoDeskAndPage 1 1 1
  Restart

Report results, including any message written to the standard error.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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