Subject: Bug#3748: Pixmaps missing from fvwm package?

From: [email-masked] (Larry Gilbert)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:56:57 -0800

At 12:29 PM 7/12/96, Chris Fearnley wrote:
>You need to install the fvwm2 package.  That's where they live.
>One might consider it a dependency problem.  But I think the two
>packages should be independent.  Maybe we need a fvwmpixmap package
>that each can depend on.

Either that or just put them back into the fvwm package; I don't really
have a preference for the means.  Since the fvwm package still appears to
include the /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps directory itself, I thought that
the exclusion of the pixmaps within it was a simple oversight.  I do think
there should be a way for fvwm users to get pixmaps without having to
install fvwm2.

I haven't moved to fvwm2 because I'm nervous about software that's listed
as beta.  Perhaps that makes me a hypocrite because I've been using Debian
0.93R6 and Linux 1.3.x for so long... :-)

Thanks...

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From: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:20:23 -0400 (EDT)

'Larry Gilbert wrote:'
>0.93R6 and Linux 1.3.x for so long... :-)

If you have disk space and install it, your old fvwm installing will
still work.  I think it installs the fvwm 2 binary as "fvwm2" and one
must modify various things (like .xinitrc).  So until the package
maintainer comes up with a reasonable solution, there is no danger in
installing fvwm2 --- just don't use it :)

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