Re: FVWM: minimal installation

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 17:52:44 -0400

Cyprian Laskowski <cyp_at_swagbelly.net> writes:
>
> Hi, I'd like to install fvwm 2.4.3 on my school account, which is
> limited to 12 MB. At school we still have 2.0.45(!), which makes it
> hard to exploit nice new features at home and then go to school and
> use the same but different window manager!
>
> Fortunately, I'm something of a minimalist as far as desktop clutter
> goes, so all I really care about is something like bin/fvwm2,
> bin/FvwmCommand, modules/FvwmPager, man/man1/fvwm2,
> man/man1/FvwmCommand, man/man1/FvwmPager. I have no problems
> compiling because I can just do that in /tmp, but is it naive to
> simply copy those 6 files into ~/fvwm or something and proceed merrily
> on my way, or will I have strange and unexpected problems. What would
> be a clean way of firing this up?

Just copying those files will give you a problem.

configuring with --prefix
and doing make install
will accomplish what you want.

If you are really tight on space, you could remove the modules
you don't want and their man pages after you are done.

One difference between 2.0.45 and 2.4.3 is that some stuff is
installed in <prefix>/share/...

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Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 16:58:59 BST

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