Re: FVWM: Rxvt and Fvwm

From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:53:21 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, David Wren-Hardin wrote:
> I'm using fvwm2.0.45, and having trouble getting rxvt to work with
> FVWMbuttons. Basically, I can't get an rxvt window to launch from
> the button. The button command is:
>
> *FvwmButtons Local una.xpm Exec "rxvt" rxvt -fn fixed &
>
> Typing just the rxvt -fn fixed & part on the command line works.
>
> Any ideas what could be going on?

maybe rxvt isn't in the path of fvwm? If you start fvwm from xdm as
apposed to startx, you won't get always get the same PATH as a login
shell would. Try putting in the full pathname.

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Received on Fri Aug 08 1997 - 13:53:23 BST

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