From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 17:11:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00976 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00971 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id RAA16988; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:11:07 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id RAA28203; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:11:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:10:29 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Nesi Unanaowo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window manager problem. In-Reply-To: <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message