Re: FVWM: Newbie at large

From: Chuk Goodin <cgoodin_at_sfu.ca>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:13:30 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Dan Espen wrote:

> > I am totally new to FVWM. I loaded FreeBSD the other day for a first
> > time as well. I have hardly any experience with anything but Windows.

Another newbie here...I've only had Linux up for about two weeks, but
fvwm2 works a lot more nicely with my P133 than KDE did.

> > FVWM Icon Man Box, with a mail box in it and a clock and FVWM Butt. What
> > and where does one go from here? Doesn't seem to be any 'first time
> > user' info that I can see.
>
> Fvwm doesn't supply as much hand-holding as Windows.
> Use Gnome or KDE for that.

I'll say!

> If you want something more elaborate than what you see so far,
> but not as elaborate as Gnome or KDE, try fvwm-themes:
>
> http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/
>
> If you just want to use Fvwm as is,
> the configuration file is in:
>
> $HOME/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc
>
> Look at it with an editor and read about the commands in the
> man page.

Also, you can download other people's .fvwm2rc off of the internet, then
examine them. I'm using a modified version of Don Knuth's, just 'cuz I
can. :-)

chuk

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Received on Sun Oct 20 2002 - 01:14:36 BST

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