Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!ibism!ibism.UUCP!lcp From: lcp@ibism.UUCP (Larry Poleshuck) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Error message from mwm Message-ID: <12312@ibism.uucp> Date: 8 Mar 91 15:23:03 GMT References: <1991Mar7.095020@cs.utwente.nl> Sender: news@ibism.uucp Organization: Citibank IBISM Lines: 77 In article <1991Mar7.095020@cs.utwente.nl>, stadt@cs.utwente.nl (Richard van de Stadt) writes: |> |> When I start up mwm (motif 1.0/X11R3) I get the following message |> |> mwm: Cannot open configuration file |> |> Does anybody know what this means? I do know that I don't get any |> pop-up menus when I press any of the 3 mouse buttons on the |> root window. The message appears both with and without the existence |> of .mwmrc in my home directory. |> -- The config file is what you use to specify the root-menu, special key bindings, etc. In you .Xdefaults file you probably have mwm*configFile pointing to some file that doesn't exist. Or maybe you don't have it defined at all. I have the following in my .Xdefaults: mwm*configFile: $HOME/.mwmrc and this is an excerpt of my $HOME/.mwmrc Menu DefaultWindowMenu { } Menu RootMenu { "Root Menu" f.title no-label f.separator Applications f.menu Applications Utilities f.menu Utilities "Xview Appls" f.menu XviewApps Refresh f.refresh "Shuffle Up" f.circle_up "Shuffle Down" f.circle_down no-label f.separator "Restart wmgr" f.restart } .. .. other menus etc. .. Buttons DefaultButtonBindings { root f.menu RootMenu frame f.raise icon f.normalize icon f.focus_key root f.circle_up frame f.lower icon f.move Meta icon|window f.move Meta window f.raise Meta root f.circle_up } Keys DefaultKeyBindings { R4 root|icon|window f.circle_up F3 window f.raise F4 window f.lower R5 root|icon|window f.circle_down F9 root|window f.exec R6 window f.exec "xsnap" } -- Larry Poleshuck Citibank 111 Wall Street New York, NY 10043 Phone: 212-657-7709 Fax: 212-825-8607 E-Mail: uunet!ibism!lcp