Re: FVWM: Gnome

From: Andrey <aam396_at_mail.usask.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:20:19 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, [iso-8859-1] Charles Parsels wrote:

> Hi,
> I am new to Linux, and FVWM. My Red Hat Linux
> distribution (that's 6.1) comes with fvwm2.x and I
> would like to know how you configure the X Window
> System to load FVWM instead of the gnome desktop
> environment? Any suggestions?
>
> Anything appreciated!
>
> Thank you!

I change /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to achieve the result:

right at the end of this file there is a command to execute the window
manager.

I add something like the following:

if [ -f $HOME/.wm_style ]; then
        exec `cat $HOME/.wm_style`
elif [ -x `which fvwm2` ]; then
        exec fvwm2
else
        twm &
        xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
        xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
        xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
        exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
fi

Which simply executes whatever window manager is listed in
$HOME/.wm_style. If this file does not exist, I default to fvwm2 or twm.

This has been tested on RH6.0 (the latest one I used before moving to BSD)

Regards: Andrey

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Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 18:21:47 GMT

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