Re: FVWM: changing the desktop background

From: David R. Morrison <drm_at_math.duke.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:14:20 -0400

On Oct 22,2002 14:53:53 -0400, Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout_at_cs.utk.edu> wrote :
>At 13:30 -0400 2002/10/22, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
>>> > Is fvwm-root a component of 2.5.* ? I don't find it in 2.4.11.
>>>
>>>Is not it in your $PATH together with other fvwm-* utilities?
>>>
>>>With 2.4.8+ after "make install" fvwm-root gets installed in the same bin
>>>directory as fvwm.
>>
>>I got my fvwm2 installation from fink (package manager on Mac OS X).
>>I'll contact the maintainer about this.
>
>So I did.
>
>At 14:36 -0400 2002/10/22, David R. Morrison wrote:
>>I ran "dpkg -L fvwm2 | grep fvwm-root" to confirm that it's not there.
>>The fink package runs "make install" on fvwm2, but this is not installed.
>>
>>Can ther person who told you this provide more clues?
>
>

Victor,

I figured this out.

The fvwm project is in the process of converting the main name of their
executable from fvwm2 to fvwm, and there are some other name changes,
including a change from xpmroot to fvwm-root.

I have not followed this change in the fink packages, because when I first set
the fink packages up, I followed the example from the Debian project and
constructed a setup which allows the original fvwm (fvwm1) and fvwm2 to be
installed simultaneously. This recent conversion process at the fvwm project
would break my setup, so I have been disabling it by using a flag they provide
(NEW_NAME_SYMLINKS=false). This is why you are not finding fvwm-root: it is
actually called xpmroot, it's old name.

  -- Dave






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