Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason Wells) Cc: dburr@POBoxes.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RedHat's desktop (fvwm95+TheNextLevel) on 2.2.2? Message-ID: <199707271646.LAA09476@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970727154729.007b82f0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> from Jason Wells at "Jul 27, 97 03:47:29 pm"
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> At 03:58 AM 7/27/97 -0700, Donald Burr wrote: > >I've totally gotten used to the desktop as presented in RedHat Linux 4.2 > >that we run at work (something called "TheNextLevel" added on to fvwm95). > >I'd like to set up this interface on my home machine, which runs FreeBSD. > >I grabbed the source RPM's from our Redhat 4.2 CD-ROM and tried to install > >them here, but nothing seems to work. Has anyone done this (ported the > >RedHat 4.2 desktop onto FreeBSD) and can give me some hints as to how to > >do this successfully? Thanks! > > Fvwm95 is not a linux product in case you didn't know. It is not RedHat > specific. It is free for the net. You can get fvwm95 from the fvwm95 website. > > Fvwm95 is really only a slight rehash of fvwm2. You can read the fvwm2 site > for info as well. I used fvwm so I hope what I say applies to fvwm95 as well. > Note that I use Fvwm95 regularly on my system for FreeBSD development, and have turned some people onto it at work (NCI) also. John
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