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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:10:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Nesi Unanaowo <nesi_unanaowo@net.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Window manager problem.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270105270.348-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com>

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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Nesi Unanaowo wrote:

>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

You are better off compiling this from the ports collection. Look in
/usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2 if you have the ports on your box. (this is just a
side note)

>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

Does your .xinitrc have a line in it that starts fvwm2?

Catchya Later,		|	Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter.
Jason Wells		|	http://www.freebsd.org/


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