From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 02:08:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA09454 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 02:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA09449 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 02:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.89.3]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.6/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id KAA12336; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:07:59 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:07:54 +0100 Message-Id: <199708180907.KAA22535@crux> From: Scott Mitchell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gordon Wang CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help In-Reply-To: <83623427@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gordon Wang said: >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 *did* install the fvwm port/package, right? Once that's done, make sure the fvwm binary is somewhere on your path -- it'll be called fvwm or fvwm2, can't remember which right now. Check that you have this right in .xinitrc. Fvwm should then start up with default settings, but if it still doesn't work, try copying /usr/X11R6/lib/x11/fvwm2/system.fvwmrc to ~/.fvwm2rc and see if that works. You should probably do that anyway, as you will most likely want to modify the rc file to your personal tastes. The manpage will tell you what all the options do. Did you get any particular error messages when X 'crashed'? HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0xE8A64271 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | | -- J. S. Bach.