Xsnow: Could not determine desktop session

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I get this series of text when I try to run xsnow (xsnow-2.0.17-1.fc32) from a xterm.
$ xsnow
Xsnow-2.0.17
December 14th 2001 by Rick Jansen
February 2020 by Willem Vermin
Could not determine desktop session
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I am running FVWM as my window manager and XDM as my display manager. I had just updated to Fedora 32 and expected that this program would work. I checked an installation of Fedora 31 on a similar installation and encountered the same error. I went back installed and tested xsnow-1.42 and that version worked just fine.