From: Graeme.McCaffery_at_astro.cf.ac.uk (Graeme McCaffery)
Subject: Re: FVWM: running fvwm2 on a remote system
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:01:35 +0100 (BST)
> > Near 2000, Neil Zanella mumbled something about:
> > >
> > > Can I configure my .fvwmrc to have an entry in the pop-up menu sying
> > > "switch to fvwm2" that will work by using the fvwm2 program on the remote
> > > machine and how can I do this?
> >
> > As far as I am concerned, you will have to quit X and do an rsh/remsh/whatever_
>
>
> you need to have a function that will allow you to quit fvwm, then rsh (exchanging xauth)
> to the remote machine, perhaps copy the desired fvwmrc file over and run fvwm.
> you could prolly do this with a script on the other machine.
>
> hope this helps, it's not impossible just difficult.
I generally recommend the use of the 'xsession' program, which you can
obtain from any X ftp mirror.
This is a simple client which you run as the last program in your X startup
script (.xinitrc, .Xclients, .xsession, or whatever) instead of the
window manager.
xsession starts the window manager for you, then provides a menu of
different window managers to switch between. I find it very useful
to debug different versions of fvwm. It also make a great failsafe ...
if you mess up your fvwmrc and fvwm fails you will still get the
xsession window, and can switch to twm or something else, fire up
an editor, fix the fvwmrc, and test it.
When you want to leave X, just quit the xsession program.
You could set it up with menu entries for:
fvwm
rsh host fvwm2
twm
and so on.
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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