On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:37:32PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Just curious whether anybody uses fvwm in Ubuntu, specifically how to get > all the automatic things that gnome does (at least I think it's gnome) in > Ubuntu, it has various programs that show in panels, e.g. system update, > network status, pidgin shows status there etc. > > I have read the Ubuntu docs so I know how to set it up so that fvwm is used > but it doesn't talk about these other things (I think most of them are more > gnome specific then Ubuntu specific) > It's fairly easy, I used fvwm with Ubuntu until a couple of months ago.
> Should I be looking at how to make fvwm and gnome work together? Or? > Basically what you need to do is run gnome-panel and then tune the contents of gnome-panel so it just adds the bits you need to your fvwm desktop. I removed the bottom panel and made the top panel quite small. Alternatively there are ways of adding the gnome menus to the fvwm menus but I never found these really satisfactory. -- Chris Green
