From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 5 23:19:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28784 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 23:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from abaseen.lums.edu.pk (abaseen.lums.edu.pk [203.128.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28779 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 23:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravi.lums.edu.pk (really [203.128.0.4]) by lums.edu.pk via sendmail with esmtp id for Received: from localhost (b98045@localhost) by ravi.lums.edu.pk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA18170; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:12:22 +0500 (PKT) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:12:21 +0500 (PKT) From: Nabil Hassan Mustafa To: Ron Jumps cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question about X In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970405221237.0092a240@gotnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To install X- windows managers simply install the package, and then in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory, rename the fvwm95 file to twm. Whatever the new windows manager, just rename it into twm, and that will become the manager. Nabil Hassan Mustafa Lahore University of Management Sciences ------------------------------------------------------------------- When someone says it's the principle, not the money, the money is the principle. ------------------------------------------------------------------- email : b98045@lums.edu.pk URL : http://www.lums.edu.pk/~b98045 On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Ron Jumps wrote: > I have just installed freebsd 2.1.7 and everything seems to have gone OK. > My question is about X configuration. When I startx I get the twn widows > manager, I would like to install fvwm or fvwm95-2 and I don't know what or > where the config file is. If someone could shed some light on this, it > would help me greatly. > > Thanks, > Ron Jumps > C.A.T.Systems > rljumps@gotnet.net > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, > but no simpler." - Albert Einstein > > "Not everything that counts can be counted, > and not everything that can be counted counts." - > Albert Einstein > > >