On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 01:01:45AM -0400, Osvaldo Rentas wrote:
> I installed redhat 5.2 and the default window managers were fvwm95
> and afterstep ... I looked around and liked fvwm. So I uninstalled the
> other fvwms with the -e oldfvwm.rpm type of command.
I'm not sure why you bothered to do this, but...
> I installed the new version.
How? Did you install an rpm you downloaded from some site or did you
build fvwm2 version 2.2 taken from the fvwm site?
> Now it seems in .Xclients I edited it to start the new
> one, but it never works.
To keep the same functionality that was set up in the original system
you might want to take a look at the system default Xclients file
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
which sources /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM
> WHere is the executable installed to when I
> start X I can get fvwm, so all I get are errors.
Is the executable fvwm2 that you wish to run come early in your path, i.e.
before any other verions?
Another thing that
> seems to happen is that all the characters in console will get all messy
> and be in disorder .. so basically, can anyone help me install fvwm ?
Sure. Do you want to install the latest version of fvwm2 rpm that you can
find or do you want to build and install fvwm2 yourself?
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> I'm not quite sure if you are aware that fvwm95 and fvwm (aka fvwm2)
> are different window managers.
Dominik, I'm not sure I know what you mean by this statement. In the
RedHat setup, the stript /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM executes the statement
eval "exec fvwm${FVWMVER} ${FVWMOPTIONS}" > "$HOME"/.FVWM${FVWMVER}-errors
2>&1
where FVWMVER is either fvwm2, fvwm95 or fvwm95-2 with precedence in that
order.
and by default FVWMOPTIONS is
"-cmd 'FvwmM4 -debug /etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.m4"
In fact in this file you will even find statements like:
echo "RESUMING with Fvwm2 (95 look)" >&2
Start_Fvwm95
For all I can tell, fvwm95 is fvwm2 with the decors set up for the "95
look". It's not my preferred decor, but...
> No development has been going on on
> fvwm95 for about two years now, so plain fvwm is probably what you
> want. If you feel uncomfortable with the red hat setup you can
> fetch a copy of the latest stable release from our home page:
>
> http://fvwm.org
>
> If you compile and install this package you will get a standard
> installation in the standard location (/usr/loca/...). Be warned
> that the deafult configuration isn't very nice yet (in fact it's
> quite ugly). There is a section about RH setup in the docs/FAQ file
> in the distribution.
>
> 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 Thu Jul 22 1999 - 09:34:35 BST