Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:36:13 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: ivan.roth@free.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing fvwm2 Message-ID: <1132760173.1255.10.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051123160347.l716aoloiqo0800c@imp4.free.fr> References: <20051123160347.l716aoloiqo0800c@imp4.free.fr>
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:03 +0100, ivan.roth@free.fr wrote: > Hi, > > I just compiled/installed fvwm2 from ports on my 6.0. But I don't know how to > run it. > > I have gdm launching gnome 2.12 by default and fvwm2 does not appear in the list > in gdm. > > I am such a newbie, that I can't imagine you don't know what's wrong :) > > Thanks by advance. > > Regards, Ivan. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" FVWM2 is a different window manager, and can't, to the best of my knowledge, be run from GDM, or from KDM for that matter. The easy way to try it is to kill gdm, or stop it from starting up at boot time, and then create a file called '.xinitrc' in your home directory. It should contain one line 'exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2'. Then run "startx" from your home directory.
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