After updating to Fedora-15 and re-build of fvwm-2.6.1, the FIRST instance of FVWM works great. But, once logged off and an attempt to start a SECOND session fails. This .xession-errors file show that the “resource display :0” is busy.
I’ve had no issues (like this i.e. DISPLAY) with any previous versions of Fedora, Redhat, even SunOS or HPUX.
Anyone have ideas on where to look???
Thanks
Is FVWM still running when you attempt to start it a second time? How are you logging off? How do you start X, and how is FVWM invoked?
– Thomas Adam
After exiting the FVWM processes are all closed and gone.
Exiting the FVWM session with “Quit”, via a menu items:
- Quit Popup Quit-Verify
… -
"Y E S Really Quit" [b]Quit[/b]
To launch from the gdm-greeter:
/usr/share/xsessions/fvwm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=FVWM2
Comment=ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
Exec=/usr/local/bin/fvwm2
Terminal=False
Type=XSession
Right – nothing to do with FVWM then.
– Thomas Adam
I think I’ve found a “work around”… Back to the “xinit” way for starting up.
I seems that the new systemd method of control now used in Fedora-15 does not understand FVWM. ???
Anyway, having a ~/.xinitrc file and changing the /usr/share/xsessions/fvwm.desktop file seems to work! 
Note that I have xinit starting on :1 instead of :0 which seems to get locked.
~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/bash
Do the FVWM2 thing
/usr/local/bin/fvwm2
/usr/share/xsessions/fvwm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager
Encoding=UTF-8
#Exec=startx
#Exec=/usr/local/bin/fvwm2 -f /etc/fvwm2rc-lastop
Exec=xinit – :1
Name=FVWM2
Terminal=False
Update…
The latest software upgrade has apparently fixed this issue with FVWM.
xorg-x11-1.9.5 --> xorg-x11-1.10.2
No need for silly work-around, just need to be patient. 