Arch Linux

Description:

After fvwm updated to version 2.6.7-1 I noticed that I lost my themes settings. More serious
was the fact, that the default windows manager showed very limited functionality:
[1] Program invocation was limited to firefox, other links were broken, none of the buttons had any visible effect,
apart from the one that switched the background image.
[2] No logout! I had to do an external login into a new base terminal via <alt><ctrl><f2> to perform a kill -9
to finally get out.


Steps I have taken to solve the problem:
[i] invoking sudo xinit worked; invoking fvwm-themes-start from xterm launched my standard desktop with
full functionalities


[ii] Copied the new config file from /usr/share/fvwm/default-config to ~/.fvwm;
stripped everything out, apart from the line:
+ I Exec exec fvwm-themes-start

Result; startx launched a black screen, in which the archaic fvwm menu block appeared; archaic xterms
could be invoked, `exit fvwm' brought me back to my shell, thank goodness.


[iii] copied the `empty' config to /usr/share/fvwm/default-config ; invoked startx from ~/.fvwm ;
opened an xterm; did a themes reset with fvwm-themes-config --reset; after this I could
restore my personal settings; invoking startx from _this_directory_ resulted in desired behaviour,
however, when invoking startx from my home directory, the default, defective xdm showed up again!

[iv] modifying .xinitrc ; changing exec fvwm-themes-start to exec fvwm did not have any effect