fvwm (like any other window manager) runs on top of a running X session. So your system has to run fvwm instead of icewm. You probably can do so by putting the line /usr/bin/fvwm into your ~/.xsessionrc and restart X. Alternatively you could install a login manager like gdm where you can choose the actual window manager by menu. Good luck, umu
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, ch huang wrote:
i use centos5.3,now my desktop is xfce,and i have installed fvwm ./configure make make install and everything is fine.but, now question is how can i get it start? i switch to console 0 ,and type init 3 to stop my xfce,and type fvwm (also tried fvwm2) ,get an error: can not display how can i do to make fvwm work?
