I finally gave fvwm2 a decent shot a week ago, and have completely
fallen in love with it. It's taken quite the time commitment... but
you can take a look at a fresh screenshot of mine at:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~pmcalpin/pitc-screenshot.jpg
My .fvwm2rc file (which isn't too too complicated... yet): ;)
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~pmcalpin/.fvwm2rc
The best first step that I made... read the first half of the fvwm2
man page. It was hard to actually have the patience, but it paid off
big time. Then I stumbled across:
http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/configs/
This girl has a pretty sweet config, and wrote a script "fvwm-theme"
that I use and love. NOTE: It's NOT the same thing as the fvwm-themes
project. I tried fvwm-themes, and didn't like it at all. It felt like
a whole new window manager, and I was just starting to get used to
vanilla fvwm. I use it for setting backgrounds and titlebar
pixmaps. It works nicely, but I HIGHLY recommend you read through it
first, and try to figure out how it works. Then try to do the same
thing by hand. That's the best way to learn if you ask me.
I tried fvwm on top of gnome, but it seemed to defeat the purpose of
it. Instead, I (sometimes, because I found I don't need them as much)
use gnome apps on top of fvwm. I like fvwm's speed and stability way
more than gnome's buggy UI's.
Also very cool is wmpinboard (bottom left of my screenshot). Everytime
I think of something that I want to tweak, I write myself a
note. Helps me to remember: "oh yeah, I wanted to figure out how to
use..."
Hmmm... hope this book I just wrote helps. I'll give you the website
I've been at the most in the last week: ;)
http://www.fvwm.org/generated/manpages/
Good luck and have fun,
Peter
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:30:45PM -0600, Pete Milne wrote:
>
> Ok...here goes!
>
> 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.
>
> I loaded BSD and then loaded Gnome. Had all sorts of problems so looked
> what else I could use as a WM and found FVWM. Got it loaded and the
> default screen consists of:
>
> FVWM Icon Man Box, with a mail box in it and a clock and FVWM Butt. WWhat
> and where does one go from here? Doesn't seem to be any 'first time
> user' info that I can see.
--
Peter McAlpine
pmcalpin_at_uoguelph.ca
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