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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

FVWM installed but cant make it use my themes

hi! i installed FVWM...

$ pacman -Sy fvwm

I found a nice theme and want to use it, i extract the .fvwm folder to my home and in that dir, its a .fvwm2rc file but it seems that fvwm dont found it because all i get is a black screen and (only with numlock deactivated) the menu with rightclick, and windows have what it seems like a windows border with no buttons, but the theme i download, (and edited the .fvwm2rc file) has a lot of things that doesnt appear in the forums i search and in guides of fvwm and seems that if there's a .fvwm2rc file in the .fvwm dir fvwm will use it...

i too install fvwm-crystal and run with no problem, with its config, but i want fvwm alone

tnx!!

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: FVWM installed but cant make it use my themes

You probably want to pacman fvwm-devel, not fvwm. The fvwm package is very old (but considered stable).

Also, read the fvwm faq, it'll tell you how to redirect output to a log so that you can find out what it's erroring on.

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