Hi Rob!

In message <9610301743.ZM4607@warhol>
          Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk> wrote:

> > I have now got X almost working on my machine after putting in 3
> > symbolic links;
> > /usr/X11 ...to... /usr/X11R6.1
> > /usr/lib/X11 ...to... /usr/X11/lib/X11
> > /usr/include/X11 ...to... /usr/X11R6.1/include/X11
> 
> This sounds like you have a problem with your path. These links should not be
> there and indeed they can break things. Check that you don't have /usr/X11/bin
> in your path.

Think again, how can lib and include have anything to do with the path?
If fvwm looks for its ressources in /usr/lib/X11 instead of /usr/X11/lib/X11
then that's a mistake made during compiling the set to the best of my
knowledge, period.
I haven't checked the newer fvwm set though.

Markus