On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 08:57:11 -0400
<belcherr_at_VNET.IBM.COM> (Ronald G. Belcher)
wrote concerning 'FVWM: fvwm docs':
>
> I am an X newbie and am having lots of trouble getting to understand
> how to use my XFree86 windows. I read on this list about using "desk"s
> and "page"s and I am not at all sure what these are.
XFree86 is just an implementation of the X Window System for x86 machines.
Desks and Pages are an artifact of the window manager, in this case fvwm.
> I am accustomed to mwm on aix, but I have not figured out what all the
> different icons on the fvwm window frame do, or where to find the
> appropriate resource and configuration files for fvwm.
The window frame buttons depend on your configuration of fvwm.
> Can somebody please point me to a source of beginner's user guide for
> fvwm? If there is a good book out there I would love to know about it.
>
> I am using RedHat 4.2 on a Intel box and have the RedHat CD's.
In that case you're probably on fvwm-2.0.45. Look at the docs in
/usr/doc/fvwm2-2.0.45-3, then read the fvwm2 man page, then look
at some of the example configs on the web pages given in the FAQ and
on the fvwm home page.
Then just play around with all the settings and see what happens.
That's the fun part :-)
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Fri Sep 05 1997 - 09:35:37 BST