Bug 76855

Summary:	emerge fvwm does not find my conf anymore
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) <nattfodd>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) <taviso>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	desktop-wm+disabled, nattfodd
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-05 23:38:16 UTC

I updated fvwm to 2.5.12 (which is in x86) yesterday and when I rebooted, it did not use my .fvwm2rc anymore (even fvwm -replace -c "Read .fvwm2rc" does nothing...).

May be does it come from gdm, which I could not make use fvwm directlw, so I edited my /etc/X11/Sessions/XSession to make it start if no other wm is chosen (ugly but works).

reemerging fvwm-2.5.10-r6 made it all work again.

Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-07 12:54:04 UTC

you mean ~/.fvwm2rc?

It's depracated, but still supported in 2.5.12, ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc and ~/.fvwm/config are the standard names. but yours should still work, have you tried starting it with fvwm -f ~/.fvwm2rc.

Are there any errors on the console? would it be possible to run strace -ologfile -eopen fvwm and post the logfile it creates here?

Comment 2 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-02 12:55:29 UTC

Marking WORKSFORME, please REOPEN if you can provide some more information to help identify any problem.

Comment 3 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-02 13:51:00 UTC

Hi,

I just found why it didn't work yesterday. The new name for the config file is .fvwm/conf
And I had a directory with this exact name, containing some parts of my .fvwm2rc. I changed its name and everything worked fine.

Perhaps a eeinfo should be added to the ebuild ?

Comment 4 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-02 13:57:33 UTC

Alexandre: Ahh! I agree, I'll add an eeinfo.