what's going on:
X window system: a server that can display graphics (primitives like
windows, lines etc.), it does not care about desktop (window
borders/icons/menus etc...)
widget libraries: buttons, menus, icons, scroll bars and other parts
of user interface
window manager: program that manages windows (provides borders, means
for user to move/resize windows, ...)
desktop environment: higher level, usually provides combination of:
basic programs, widgets with common look/feel, window manager etc...
gnome is desktop environment, it can use one or another window manager
fvwm is window manger. it requires X server running.
check the gnome docs on how to change window manager.
to try if fvwm is working:
from virtual console type:
setenv DISPLAY :0.0 # csh, tcsh, ...
export DISPLAY=:0.0 # sh, ksh, bash, ...
X&
this runs an X server (plain)
switch back to virtual console and run
fvwm&
and you should get the fvwm running (switch back to X server window to
see it)... try to click in the root window, you should get some menu.
depending on how your X is set you might have to be root to run X,
although it might run Xwrapper by default...
erik
Vitit Kantabutra wrote:
>
> I just installed fvwm, apparently successfully. I installed it while in
> gnome, on RedHat Linux 6.1 running on a 450 MHz Pentium III computer.
> After installing fvwm, I quit X windows, and typed startx again. I got
> gnome again, so I quit it and this time I typed fvwm. But it complained
> that it can't open the display. I tried various other things, but I
> haven't been able to get it to work.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Vitit Kantabutra, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Computer Science
> College of Engineering
> Idaho State University
> Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8060
> U.S.A.
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Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 19:37:48 GMT