Re: FVWM: Getting started with fvwm

From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 25 Mar 1996 11:45:02 +0100

>>>>> On Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:46:56 +0000, Michael Smith
>>>>> <mjs_at_cursci.co.uk> said:

  Mike> Well, after years of devout ctwm-ism, I have decided the time has come
  Mike> to change to fvwm,

I have just done the same two weeks ago!

  Mike> so I have gone and got myself a copy of 2.0.41 and installed
  Mike> it on my linux box (1.3.77). First impressions are that it is
  Mike> a much more powerful and flexible window manager than ctwm

Hm. My opinion is that there are some things that ctwm does better,
and that there are some things that fvwm does better. I would
estimate them to be on par, overall. Fvwm seems to see active
development, though, whereas ctwm kind of like stagnates, so that
might change.

  Mike> (though I don't find the FvwmWinList isn't quite as nice as
  Mike> it's ctwm equivalent).

I use FvwmIconMan which does a creditable job of emulating the Icon
Manager of twm and friends.

  Mike> I am having a few problems though, most noticably restarting
  Mike> the window manager" doesn't work.

That's just a simple typo in the .fvwm2rc provided: Search for the
string "Restart fvwm" and replace it with "Restart fvwm2". This is
the one spot where the renaming didn't seem to work...

  Mike> What I'm asking therefore is whether I should persevere with
  Mike> the fvwm2 series or stick to 1 until it is stable.

I'm happy with 2.

        kai
--
There ain't no cure for the summer time blues.
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_hpc.uh.edu.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_hpc.uh.edu.
Received on Mon Mar 25 1996 - 04:45:19 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Mon Aug 29 2016 - 19:37:58 BST