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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Calum on 13 October 2002, 00:56

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Calum on 13 October 2002, 00:56

hello,
right, i downloaded a new window manager called fvwm95 and i installed it. i found that just putting the .tgz file into the / directory and unzipping it installed all the components into their correct directories. HOWEVER i am using mandrake, and when i start up my computer, X starts by default. this brings up a graphical login, and a list to choose the window manager. fvwm95 is not on this list. It is obvious that fvwm95 did not expect me to be using such a list, so basically, what files do i need to edit to add it to this list. i can type fvwm95 at a prompt but this gives me a message to the effect that a window manager is already running. this leads me to believe that it is installed a-okay and all i need to do is add this new desktop environment to my list.

anybody know how to do this?

thanks, as always, in advance.

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Calum on 13 October 2002, 05:00

no? i was hoping somebody would know this. i searched the web and came up with not too much. everybody is being vague about different versions of kde being one thing or another and mandrake users reporting that such and such doesn work for them.

I opened up a lot of scripts to do with X, but could find no list of window managers to add a line to, so please if anybody knows, do tell!

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: flap on 13 October 2002, 05:14

are you using kdm?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWTO-3.html (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWTO-3.html)

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Calum on 13 October 2002, 06:27

i think so, hang on, i made the changes and just need to restart X now...

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Calum on 13 October 2002, 06:47

rightyho, well i added it, but when i select it in the menu it actually starts IceWM. i suspect this is because something about fvwm95 is not right, so i am getting the next window manager to come in alphabetical order. Anyway, i was just thinking earlier that iceWM does everything i wanted from fvwm95 anyway... a bit sad that i can't seem to make it work though...

[ October 12, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Master of Reality on 13 October 2002, 12:38

do you really want a windows manager that is a clone of windows95??????!!!!!

fvwm95 looks exactly the same as win95, i tried it in slackware once

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Calum on 13 October 2002, 16:49

well, i just wanted to see if it worked! windows 95 is an operating system i have never had, and actually, i might never have used it now i think about it, so i wanted to see how similar fvwm95 was to windows millenium and i also wanted to change all the icons and so on, like i could NOT do in windows, as a sort of way of paying windows back and making some cool screenshots!
i also wanted to get the IE theme for mozilla to complete the picture, but it seems my mozilla is still 0.98 and the skin needs 1.0 and up...

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Lord C on 30 April 2003, 20:03

Did you eevr get this sorted?

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Calum on 30 April 2003, 22:25

well i just kind of installed slackware instead, which has both fvwm's as default.

however i recently installed icewm (not default in slack) and simply aded it to the login manager section of kcontrol in kde 3.1 which worked but taught me nothing.

Title: Managing the window managers
Post by: Lord C on 30 April 2003, 23:02

hehe, ok