On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've already installed FVWM 2.4.18 in my FreeBSD 4.10. I really recommend you install 2.5.10, since you'll need this version to use transparency, should you want it. It also has a few more features, and despite the fact it is the 'Unstable' version, I have found it to be anything but. > After successful installation and through careful > guessing, when I typed startx, I landed on a pink > desktop with a rectangular bar in the lower right with > a clock at the far right corner of it. Welcome to FVWM. Perhaps it is similar to this one: http://linuxgazette.net/105/adam.html > I have browsed the xman and found a very little help. > I have few questions in this list. "man fvwm" contains everything you'll ever need. It's all there. > How should I install a file manager, or a web browser. By whatever means FreeBSD uses, of course. If you mean which, well, there are lots. I like and use "moxfm" (motid x-file-manager), but many advocate "rox" (http://rox.sf.net), and I too used it for a while. > If I will do it in the xterm, where will the newly > installed app, be placed? Using an xterm bears no relation on installation. For *BSD, all files are placed in /usr/local/*, and one assumes this will be in your $PATH. > And where should I begin if > I would want to have a beautiful desktop like what the > screenshots in fvwm.org is displaying? At the beginning. Don't run before you can walk. Take things a step at a time, do things bit by bit, build upon it. Document your results. Research, ask here. Read the manpage, ask in #fvwm (irc.freenode.org), but don't try everything all at once. If you reply back, linking a screenshot URL, showing us the kinds of things you want, then we can help. > For ease of instruction, please advice me based on > what desktop components you are using right now(eg; > file manager, web browser..) and I will just make my My own stuff is here: http://linuxmafia.com/~n6tadam/fvwm You may well want to look at Tavis' config file here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~taviso/fvwm2rc.html -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse." -- Morrissey. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
