Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:53:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com> To: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RedHat's desktop (fvwm95+TheNextLevel) on 2.2.2? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727125203.753A-100000@roguetrader.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970727154729.007b82f0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu>
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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. > > In my experience you can install it on your FreeBSD machine without a > hitch. I am guessing that 'The Next Level' that you referred to is just a > configuration that is established in your '.fvwm95rc' file. After > installing fvwm95 on your FreeBSD box copy your '.fvwm95rc' file to your > FreeBSD home directory and pull the trigger. I don't know what 'TheNextLevel' is, it could be another branch of Fvwm, or it could already be an integrated part of Fvwm95. If you just want Fvwm, Fvwm95, Fvwm2 or Fvwm95-2 (yah, gotta love branches) I believe we have ports for most of them, so just grab the port and have at it :) -Brandon (read: /usr/share/doc/handbook for info about ports)
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