From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 28 21:29:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA18810 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 21:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from area238.residence.gatech.edu (root@area238.residence.gatech.edu [199.77.175.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA18803 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 21:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by area238.residence.gatech.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA09876 Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:28:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199604290428.AAA09876@area238.residence.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: fvwm 2 To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:28:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Apr 27, 96 06:55:16 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am thinking that I want to give fvwm2 a try ... I'm a long term happy > user of fvwm 1.24, and I was wondering if anyone else who's made the move > would have any pointers on making it smooth? Do I just build fvwm2 in > ports and install? Or do I need to move anything out of the way first? I would suggest installing it somewhere other than the default (/usr/X11R6/bin) first, and see how you like it. There's a script that comes with it that will do a decent job of converting your fvwm 1 rc file to fvwm2 format. I think I changed the script a little, though. (I didn't like the spacing in new rc file.) I've been running fvwm 2 for a couple of months now, it isn't too bad. One thing I don't like is that there doesn't seem to be any way to make the menus *not* sticky. IIRC, fvwm 1.24 had non-sticky menus by default, and I think there was a way to make them sticky. In fvwm 2, the default seems to be sticky, and I haven't figured out how to make them un-sticky by default. (if anyone knows how to do this, let me know. Otherwise, into the source I go....:) ) > Thanks. BTW, I don't have any interest in emulating Windows, so I think > I'll give fvwm95 a pass. Heh. I checked it out, even freaked out a few friends of mine who thought I'd finally cracked and installed Win95...:) I prefer plain fvwm a little more, but I'm sure that really fits the bill for some folks. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@area238.residence.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.