On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Chris G wrote: > > > I'm running fvwm2 as my wm on two fedora 7 installations. > > > > What would be the advantages (if any) of changing the runlevel to 5 > > and getting the (default) gnome desktop to run fvmw2 as its window > > manager? > > I am not familiar at all with fedora and gnome, I use suse (whose default > is kde) with fvwm. And start it from kdm, > > When I first moved to such environment I did some experimenting (I created > from scratch separate accounts for kdeuser, wmuser, fvwmuser and logged in > as each one of them selecting from the KDM login one of the window > managers offered, to see what files were created in home ... then I > modified the various .login and .cshrc to print to a file a trace of the > situation at their start and end ... by trace I mean a dump of > "set","printenv" and "ps", the latter with appropriate switches). This way > I was able to see the transient processes which disappear after starting > other processes, or which transform in other processes via exec. > > The sequence for fvwm started by kdm seems pretty lightweight, A > ps -A -H -o ppid,pid,user,command --sort=ppid,pid,user shows at the > end the following surviving chain > > /opt/kde3/bin/kdm > /usr/X11R6/bin/X ... > -:0 > /usr/bin/X11/fvwm > ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > each of the applications started in .fvwm > > There is no leftover at all of the kde desktop. There are occasionally > some kde related processes when I use some "k" applications under fvmw > (essentially kdiff3 or some system administration tool). > > This way I diverge from the local standard, but not much. > Thanks, that's useful information.
-- Chris Green
