Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:47:29 +0000 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RedHat's desktop (fvwm95+TheNextLevel) on 2.2.2? Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970727154729.007b82f0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727035806.24904B-100000@DonaldBurr.dyn.ml .org>
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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.
Hope this helps,
Jason Wells
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