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Re: xwindows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Thu Oct 29 19:34:38 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: "j g b" <jbirds@ibm.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:45:29 -0500
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Have you tried WindowMaker or Kde.
Most of this can be handled quit easily thru the configuration utilities
instead of hand editing files...
Windowmaker has a font assigner. I believe KDE does as well.
Both are far easier to configure than fvwm2... and a lot better looking.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: j g b <jbirds@ibm.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 5:31 PM
Subject: xwindows
>after tackling ppp, snd configuration and tweaking the console to
>behave the way
>i desire its now time to configure X.
>currently i'm running the default fvwm2, the server is mach64 set to
>display 32bpp
>at 640x480(virtual 800x600) using 2mb of memory.
>first, i desire to change the geometry of application windows, ie.
>netscape which
>i've done succesfully by editing /etc/X11/fvwm2. however, i've been
>unsuccessful
>in changing the geometry of most applications i'm running(ghostview,
>galaga et. al). i've scanned through the .xinitrc, .Xresources, and
>.Xclients files that i've
>copied to /home directory(running as root) but it appears to me this is
>not where i
>should be looking. i've sifted through a file fvwmxxx located in roots
>/tmp directory which contains code about these applications.( ie exec
>xgalaga &)
>now is this where i should specify geometry specifications? where are
>the defaults sepecified?
>can i use xlsfonts to in xwindows to change fonts? can you reccomend a
>font type/size
>to use?
>
>regards,
>
>jack
>
>
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