[98724] in RedHat Linux List
Re: fvwm once again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David S. Jackson)
Tue Nov 10 10:06:18 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:02:04 +0000
From: "David S. Jackson" <dsj@dsj.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: "David S. Jackson" <dsj@dsj.net>
In-Reply-To: <199811101421.PAA16210@iae.univ-nantes.fr>; from LEBLIN Jean-Yves on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 03:16:44PM +0100
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Thus spake LEBLIN Jean-Yves (leblin@iae.univ-nantes.fr):
>
> Now i read the INSTALL file it
> tells me i'll have to modify my .xinitrc or .xsession in order to start
> fvwm95.
Look for ~/.xsession which should be a symlink to ~/.Xclients. At
least that's the way it's been on RHL's I've seen. You can create a
symlink if it doesn't already exist.
> When i launch startx, it is supposed to call xinit with xinitrc and
> xserverrc as parameters, but i don't have any xserverrc file anywhere is
> this a problem ?
The if [ -f thisorthatfile ] structure just means that "if that file
exists *and* is a regular file" then blah blah blah. As long as
"thisorthatfile" isn't a directory or symlink or something, then the
condition is true.
I'm not sure, but I think the xserverrc file is a legacy from earlier
versions of X. They leave it in the script for compatibility reasons.
But I'm guessing here. I don't see this file on any of my other boxes
(with other Linux distros), so I guess we don't need it. :-)
> Then xinitrc is supposed to call Xmodmap and no Xmodmap file -> same question.
This is just a file containing custom keybindings. It's optional.
You might see if you have the Sample.Xmodmap anywhere on your system.
> I cant find any fvwm95/2 howto, i've checked http://fvwm.themes.org and the
> links then searched the RH list archive but it didn't help a lot.
You might check the Linux applications and utilities page. Look under
windowmanagers.
> If i resume : what should i do when i'll have compiled the fvwm95 to use it
> instead of fvwm2 ?
Just adjust your ~/.Xclients or ~/.xsession file accordingly.
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