From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 17 19:17:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12768 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA12760 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id MAA10661; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:17:14 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA09534; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:47:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970818114711.01535@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:47:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jerry Dunham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help References: <19970817144752.21512@lemis.com> <199708180009.TAA00375@rider.fc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199708180009.TAA00375@rider.fc.net>; from Jerry Dunham on Sun, Aug 17, 1997 at 07:09:35PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Aug 17, 1997 at 07:09:35PM -0500, Jerry Dunham wrote: > Nearly coherently, Greg Lehey wrote (and I quote): >> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:47:52 +0930 >> From: Greg Lehey >> To: guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: Re: help > >> On Sun, Aug 17, 1997 at 12:16:49AM +0800, Gordon Wang wrote: >>> Gordon Wang wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Sir >>>> I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. >>>> What should I do to change my windows manager to fvwm? >>>> I have tried to change "twm &" to "fvwm &" in the file .xinitrc, >>>> but this made my X-windows crashed. >> >> You also need a file called .fvwmrc. There should be a sample file >> somewhere. I've found, however, that the old version of fvwm is >> rather sensitive to the contents, and it may dump core if you put >> things in it doesn't like. You might prefer to use fvwm2 instead. >> Note that this version's config file is .fvwm2rc. > > Do you recommend switching? I'm apparently still running the sensitive > one (though it hasn't bitten me in ages). I suppose if you're happy with what you have, don't change. In particular, the format of .fvwm2rc is very different from .fvwmrc, and it will require Serious Editing, especially if you're not using Emacs. I've made the change, and I like it. In particular, you can get the window manager to give windows different properties (I assign different colours to the window frames from different systems, for example, and put the icons at different places on the screen). Greg