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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:11:15 -0400
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From: Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net>
Subject: Re: Installing fvwm from 4.3 RELEASE
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>Hmmm....
>
>I suspect you may have to splice it into ~/.xinitrc:
>
>[user@yourhost]% cat .xinitrc
>exec fvwm
>
>Or some such thing.
>
>DSL

Thanks for the answer.

I've got
    fvwm2 &
in xinitrc. That brings up fvwm without any functionality. I've also tried
    fvwm &
    exec fvwm2
    exec fvwm
These don't start fvwm at all.

I can bring up twm, blackbox, and enlightenment with
    <window manager name> &
in xinitrc and all three work fine. fvwm is the only one I can't get to work.

BTW, xinitrc is not a dot file on 4.3 RELEASE. At least, not on my copy.

Bob Hall

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