Hi all,
I spent several years being forced to use only other window managers,
and I am returning to Fvwm now… but I am not being able to make
FvwmCommand work. Hints, please?
I am on Debian 11 and I downloaded and compiled Fvwm3 from the git
repository yesterday. Here is a minimal working example - with a
~/.fvwm/config that is just 3 lines long - that shows the bug. If I
execute this in a terminal in a plain X session created with “xinit –
:1.0”,
killall fvwm3
sudo ps ax | grep -i fvwm
ls -lAF /tmp/fvwm*
cat ~/.fvwm/config
fvwm3 &
sudo ps ax | grep -i fvwm
ls -lAF /tmp/fvwm*
FvwmCommand ‘CursorMove +5 +2’
I get this log:
$ killall fvwm3
fvwm3: no process found
$ sudo ps ax | grep -i fvwm
155512 pts/5 SN+ 0:00 grep -i fvwm
$ ls -lAF /tmp/fvwm*
ls: cannot access ‘/tmp/fvwm*’: No such file or directory
$ cat ~/.fvwm/config
DestroyFunc StartFunction
AddToFunc StartFunction
- I Module FvwmMFL
$ fvwm3 &
$ loaded [0]: /home/edrx/.fvwm/config
sudo ps ax | grep -i fvwm
155516 pts/5 SN 0:00 fvwm3
155517 pts/5 SN 0:00 /usr/local/libexec/fvwm3/1.0.5/FvwmMFL 7 4 none 0 8
155519 pts/5 SN+ 0:00 grep -i fvwm
$ ls -lAF /tmp/fvwm*
srwxrwx— 1 edrx edrx 0 Jan 7 15:08 /tmp/fvwm_mfl.sock=
$ FvwmCommand ‘CursorMove +5 +2’
Cannot find FvwmMFL socket None.
Please start FvwmMFL module from your fvwm configuration.
$
I ran the shell inside Emacs to be able to use the trick described in
these slides to send the commands one by one:
http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/2021emacsconf.pdf
In that shell I have TERM=dumb and DISPLAY=:1.0.
Thanks in advance!
Eduardo Ochs
Angel's Egg - the home page of Eduardo Ochs (a.k.a. Edrx)