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

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