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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (2332)	10/16/2000 12:33:17 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

fvwm95 as I recall just looks like window95. In fact the idea for it came in my opinion from Billy envy. Let's make the Linux gui look like the borg gui and all will come. That I thought was a bad idea but Redhat bought into it at the time. I don't consider fvwm95 spifier just a bad idea. Why would I want to move the mouse to one location on the screen to pop up a menu and not just pop it up anywhere. As to fvwm, not fvwm2, I ??? hmmmm. well it's on my watman.com page. This works for redhat and mandrake and maybe slackware. ...... And last but most important. HOW do you make fvwm the default window manager? Well on redhat as root you edit, vi /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc rpm -qa \|grep fvwm will tell if fvwm-1.24r-15 is installed. or ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm Also copy place my .fvwmrc in your home directory. Now remember the file on my web-server is named fvwmrc and you need to save/name it locally .fvwmrc I usually save /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.orig Then I edit and hard code exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm in the xinitrc file. my fvwmrc file watman.com My style is over time to settle on what I consider the best and the figure out how to simply keep the best. I don't bother with the other window managers as none or will ever have anything but a different way of doing the same thing. A window manager manages windows which happen to be applications that do the good stuff. What is the best way to know what and where and keep track. that's what stuff is about. It was obvious a long time ago that kde and gnome are about creating cross connected dependancies between the window manager and the applications creating compromises in the functionality of both. Microsoft being the ultimate purveyor of the above poor design practice. Compromising the interface just leads to bug city and porky performance. Tom Watson tosiwmee