On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:12:06PM -0600, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:43:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > I'm running fvwm 2.5.24 on Fedora 8. > > > > If I go to System - Preferences - Look and Feel - Desktop Effects and > > click the "Enable Desktop Effects" butoon it crashes my fvwm2 session. > > > > What menu is this. By default fvwm does not have 'Desktop Effects' so you are > using some custom configuration which probabally requires other softwear. > > Are you using fvwm-crystal? or some other set of fvwm configs? > > Is this system/preferences menu a part of a gnome/kde pannell you have > running and so it is trying to set a preference for a special window manager > which you are not running with its default window manager and so the desktop > isn't able to set its preferences correctally? > Yes, sorry, I should have said, the 'Desktop Effects' is accessed from gnome-panel. However I don't really see why fvwm should stop it working. Just about every other thing that I can access from gnome-panel works perfectly. fvwm2 is supposed to be gnome friendly.
> In either case this doesn't sound like an fvwm issue yet. To me it sounds > like a gnome pannell you have running within fvwm, and in that case the > system/preferences menu won't do much to changing fvwm. If it is fvwm-crystal > or another set of configs I would ask the question there. > I don't want it to change fvwm, I just want it not to crash! > If you can be a bit clearer about the above, it will be possible to help or > point you in the right direction. > > jaimos > > -- Chris Green
