I feel a little foolish here, but a fix has been found: Nothing wrong with fvwm, so you can use the RPM. The problem was the location of the rbg.txt file has changed since FC2. This does the lookup of colour names to hex values, so fvwm was giving you black text on a black background since it couldn't look up anything. The solution is RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" in xorg.conf. Thanks for your help Myles, Ross > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Myles Green > Sent: 26 September 2006 10:27 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: fvwm not showing any menus in FC5 > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:18:27 +0100 > "Macintyre, Ross A" <R.A.Macintyre@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It is: fvwm 2.5.5 (from cvs) compiled on Nov 12 2002 at 16:43:17 > > > > and the rpm I'm trying to get working on FC5 is fvwm-2.4.19-1 > > I chose this from the fvwm site as it is the most recent stable version. > > maybe I should try the 'unstable' release, fvwm-2.5.13. > > I'll give that a go and see what happens. > > good luck > > Myles > -- > Coward, n.: > One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. > -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
