Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:14:14 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing fvwm2 Message-ID: <1132784054.1255.29.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051123155754.GC10608@keyslapper.net> References: <20051123160347.l716aoloiqo0800c@imp4.free.fr> <1132760173.1255.10.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <20051123155754.GC10608@keyslapper.net>
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:57 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/23/05 10:36 AM, Mike Jeays sat at the `puter and typed: > > 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. > > No Mike, this isn't true. I just switched to kdm so I could play with > KDE, but I still have the option (and am currently using it) of using > my old Fvwm2 config. You CAN also run Fvwm from gdm. > > It should be noted that gdm is NOT a window manager, but a display > manager, as is kdm and xdm. They launch window managers for you. Kdm > and gdm are just designed to cater to their respective session > managers (which is also different than the window managers). Gdm > gives you the option of using several window managers (like IceWM, > enlightenment, etc) on top of the session manager. Fvwm CAN run with > the gnome session manager (and at one time could easily be built with > the gnome session manager support build it IIRC). > > It's been a long time since I even had gdm installed, much less run > Fvwm off it, but I know for a fact it can be done. You just have to > read the docs to see how to specify your window manager. It may even > be possible to swith to Fvwm on the fly through the default WM menus. > > Ivan, I do know that with kdm, I had to link my ~/.fvwm/fvwm2rc file > to ~/.fvwm2rc in order to have it recognized when starting from kdm. > Starting it from xdm didn't seem to require that, but for whatever > reason, kdm did. Perhaps this might be useful when setting up the > ~/.xsession as suggested by Mike? Fvwm2 has a -f parameter that lets > you specify the config file explicitly, but remember that any files > you read from there should include fully resolvable paths. > > Good luck, and sorry I couldn't provide more detailed help on this. > > Lou Thanks for the correction - you obviously know more about it than I do!
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