Jean Florentine <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > I am running fvwm under Cywin/Windows, > In Cygwin i start XWin in rootless mode, > then i start fvwm, but i cannot manage to get a proper fvwm set-up > i just look for a ready to use fvwm configuration that offers a > page manager and a few buttons and possibly set scrollbars on the x-Window, > would you have that or point me to it. > By the way i tried to install fvwm-themes but it is failling to start
Hi Jean. Apparently you are new to the world of X Windows. When a window manager is running root-less, there is no possibility of having a pager. Multiple pages or workspaces are created by the program that manages the root window. Window managers do not put scrollbars on x-windows. Either the application does that or it doesn't. Fvwm can't help you with scrollbars. You can get buttons on the window frames by creating an fvwm configuration. I don't have any experience doing this on Windows but I think I can offer some hints. First do a google search for "windows environment variables". You need to set the environment variable "HOME" so that Fvwm will know where to look for the configuration. Assuming you've set the HOME environment variable to "C:\MYHOME", then create the folder: C:\MYHOME\.fvwm Fvwm will then look for it's configuration in: C:\MYHOME\.fvwm\.fvwm2rc or C:\MYHOME\.fvwm\config (Recent beta copies of Fvwm prefer the later.) To test whether this works put one line in the configuration file like this: Style "*" BorderWidth 20, HandleWidth 20 and restart Fvwm. You should see your windows with very thick frames around them. Fvwm-themes will also need $HOME to be set, so you might be able to get Fvwm-themes working after this.
