Hiya Charles,
Sometime in the late 1900s you asked:
> I have downloaded the fvwm port from the freebsd ftp site, but I do not know
> how to get it to load when I run startx. I know that I'm missing something
> simple, but I have worked on this for several hours with no success, any
> suggestions?
1. Check to see if there is `.xinitrc' in your home directory?
2. If 1 yeilds true
A. Edit the file and see what is the last line in there.
It should be some sort of a wm.
B. If A yeilds true
i. Make a BACKUP of it.
ii. Change it to "fvwm"
iii. You are done. exit(0);
C. If A yeild false
i. Make a BACKUP of it.
ii. Try adding "fvwm" to the end of it.
iii. Try running startx and see if it works.
iv. You are done. exit(0);
3. If 1 yeilds false
A. There is a system default `xinitrc' file that is getting
executed.
I am not sure where this would be on a freeBSD system.
On Linux it is in:
/var/X11R6/lib/xinit/xinitrc
B. Copy it to your home directory under the name of `.xinitrc'.
C. Go to step 2.A
Hope this helps,
Patrick K.
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Received on Wed Jun 10 1998 - 20:48:59 BST