On Wed, 22 May 1996 13:11:37 -0700
Brian Summerfiels <bsummerfield_at_csupomona.edu>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: fvwm95 to fvwm2.0.4 standard':
> I would first like to thank the people who created fvwm and the
> contributors to its ongoing development as well as the people who answer
> questions from people like me.
> I installed RedHat Linux version 4.1 Vanderbilt Kernal 2.0. It
> installed great, I then set the XF86Config file and started fvwm95. It
> worked great, however, one of the reasons I installed Linux was to get
> away from Win95.
Good plan.
> So I down loaded and installed fvwm2.0.45 I then went
> to go change my .fvwmrc file to load fvwm2, however it was already set
> to load fvwm and was loading fvwm95. I chnaged it to fvwm2 and when I
On startup fvwm2 reads .fvwm2rc to determine its configuration. However,
you need to change the window manager that is started when X is
initiated.
> type startx fvwm95 loads. What I need to know is how to get fvwm to
> load and not fvwm95. As I am sure you can tell from my letter this is
> my first shot at Linux and X Windows so any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
The first thing to do is read the man page for startx, which reveals
that:
To determine the client to run, startx first looks for a file called
.xinitrc in the user's home directory. If that is not found, it
uses the file xinitrc in the xinit library directory.
A quick find soon revealed the presence of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, a shell
script which does some setup with xrdb and xmodmap, then
looks for $HOME/.Xclients and execs it if it exists.
So you could create a .xinitrc or .Xclients with the clients you want
on X startup.
For example, your .Xclients could look like this:
nxterm &
emacs &
xearth &
fvwm2
The last client should be in the foreground, and is often the window
manager. When it finishes (you do Quit in fvwm2) the X session ends.
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Phone: 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/
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Received on Thu May 22 1997 - 11:09:29 BST