I noticed that a couple of other people have responded already as to how
they managed to do this. What I personally think is the most simple way
to do this is to put a .xsession or .Xclients file in your home directory.
If you look at the file
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Default
you will see
$ cat Default
#!/bin/bash -login
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
(yep, that's it...)
Now if you look at this file you will find a bunch of stuff at the top
which handles the case in which the Xsession script was called with
arguments. In the case that no arguments were supplied (which is what
we're interested in with the Default script) the script falls back onto
this
# otherwise, take default action
if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ]; then
exec "$HOME/.xsession"
elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then
exec "$HOME/.Xclients"
elif [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
exec xsm
fi
So, if you simply put a .xsession file in your home directory which runs
fvwm2 you're set! Looking at this Xsession script will suggest that one
way to do this is to call switchdesk just as they do in the case that you
choose AnotherLevel. Another way is to call
/usr/X11/bin/RunWM._______
where the ______ is Fvwm95 or which the decors which you want. I'm
assuming that it's still around in the base install of RH6.1
Of course there are many other ways as well, but I think I've more than
answered your question. :-)
Tom
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, 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!
>
>
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