On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 10:01:45PM +0000, Jake Holmen wrote:
> Alex - thank you for your help.
>
> Here's my counter q's to your answers to my q's!
>
> thanks:
>
> >From: Alex Wallis <awol_at_dove.net.au>
> >To: Jake Holmen <jakeholmen_at_hotmail.com>, fvwm <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
> >Subject: Re: FVWM: 4 questions about fvwm
> >Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 16:13:26 +0930
> >
> >Jake Holmen wrote:
> > >
> > > I know I may have had these answered before (in a roundabout way)
> > > but if someone could answer them, I'd be grateful:
> > >
> >Firstly which fvwm version are you running? There are slight differences
> >between them.
>
> J - I'll find out what version I am running, but how do I do that?
> (Help - About?) How do I UN-install the old version of fvwm2 and re-install
> the new? (I assume that you just delete the directory and gunzip the new
> package into the same directory)
>
> > > 1) How do I find the .fvwm95rc file if there is not one in my /root
> > > ($HOME) as root? I know it must be around somewhere....
> >Second, fvwm95 is really old and no longer supported. The later versions
> >of fvwm use .fvwm2rc files for configuration. (BTW: running your X
> >server as root is a security risk! Don't do it! Start X as a user
> >instead.)
> > >
>
> J - I still don't know the version - but I do know that I did have the file
> .fvwm95rc once, so I guess the version Im running must be old.
It's not really interesting to know the release since fvwm95 is
a different window manager that hasn't been developed by people
on this list and has not been maintained for years now. The
recent stable fvwm2 releases or beta releases provide virtually
all functionality that fvwm95 did, but with some minor and major
differences in syntax. In the latest betas there's an unfinished
config that was copied from fvwm95 in the sample-fvwmrc directory).
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sun Apr 09 2000 - 17:59:12 BST