Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:13:14 -0800 From: Nesi Unanaowo <nesi_unanaowo@net.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Window manager problem. Message-ID: <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com>
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Hi,
I am still unable to get rid of the default window manager (twm)
which is making life a little unbeareble with FreeBSD 3.0. Just to be
sure that my distro wasn't the problem (quite unlikely) I went out to
http://fvwm.math.uh.edu/ and grabbed fvwm2-1.10.tar.gz. I successully
compiled this package and had the binaries/man pages where they were
supposed to be. Thereafter i proceded to create a .xinitrc file in my
home directory and also copied the sample file that came with the
package to my home directory as .fvwm2rc. Both files are owned by
me and have both the read and executable bits set.
But after rebooting my system ( I didn't think i had to ) i logged in
as myself and started X (startx). I was surprised that the default
window manager (twm) popped up again. Obviously there is
something i am not doing right but can't for the life of me figure
out. I will really appreciate any input as I am getting a little
frustrated with this exercise. Interestingly though, when i
do a 'ps' it shows that a process with '/export/home/nesi/.xinitrc
is running on my system.
TIA
Nesi
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