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From: jmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joel Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where is Xm ?
Date: 27 Jul 1995 02:06:35 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <1995Jul25.233706.10679@eisner>,
Scott Burns <burns@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
&Ok, people talked me out of trying to get mwm for my config:
&
&NetBSD V1.0a (June 24th), XFree86 V3.1.1.
&
&Now I am trying to get fvwm to compile. It complained of xpm requirements.
&
&Well I now know that is "pixmap" ? That was a bit of fun to track down
&(maybe someone should put that in the Motif faq). Anyway, I grabbed it
&from ftp.x.org.
&
&Anyway, trying to compile pixmap it appears to want a bunch of Xm include
&files. I think Xm is the "Motif Toolkit" ? but I am not sure. Can anyone
&tell me where I might find that ?
&

What you need is ftp.x.org:/contrib/libraries/xpm-*.  It doesn't require
motif.  In fact, you can configure fvwm so that it doesn't need libXpm.
You just won't get color icons without libXpm.