Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:10:29 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Nesi Unanaowo <nesi_unanaowo@net.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window manager problem. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270105270.348-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com>
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Nesi Unanaowo wrote: >Hi, > I am still unable to get rid of the default window manager (twm) >which is making life a little unbeareble with FreeBSD 3.0. Just to be >sure that my distro wasn't the problem (quite unlikely) I went out to >http://fvwm.math.uh.edu/ and grabbed fvwm2-1.10.tar.gz. I successully You are better off compiling this from the ports collection. Look in /usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2 if you have the ports on your box. (this is just a side note) >compiled this package and had the binaries/man pages where they were >supposed to be. Thereafter i proceded to create a .xinitrc file in my >home directory and also copied the sample file that came with the >package to my home directory as .fvwm2rc. Both files are owned by Does your .xinitrc have a line in it that starts fvwm2? Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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