On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:43:18PM +0100, Rui Silva wrote: > Hi! > > I've installed FVWM and FVWM-themes on my Ubuntu 10.04 but I'm > experiencing some difficulties: > > 1. How can I activate FVWM as my default WM? > > 2. How can I use the "cde" as the default theme? > > 3. How can I deactivate GNOME desktop manager and replace by the cde > look and feel? >
The answer to these three questions are all related and depending on how you want thigns set up you have one of two basic models you can follow. Of the two I will briefly describe, the first is probabaly the one you don't want I'm just mentioning it incase you do and so you can see the difference in the philosphy of what is going on. The First Method: you will run fvwm/fvwm-themes as a window manager within gnome as your desktop. In this situation you replace just the window manager but the rest of the gnome destkop will still be running. To do this you will have to configure gnome (I haven't used this in a long time so I cannot answer on the paticulars here) to use fvwm/fvwm-themes as your window manager. In the first method your logon and everything will be the same, you will still have the gnome pannels, menus and configuring options, you will then just have fvwm/fvwm-themes to configure on top of it. The Second Method: you will run fvwm/fvwm-themes as your sole desktop window manager and not run it though gnome (i.e. you can scrape gnome completely). To do this you need the details of how you log into X. Most Ubuntu defaults will put you into gdm (gnome display manager) which will launch X and either give you a graphical logon or automatically log onto an account and into X. It is the job of gdm to know what desktop to run when you log into X, by default this will be gnome, but it is possible to configure gdm to run any other wm/desktop. So what you will want to do is configure gdm to launch fvwm-themes instead of gnome when you log on. Once you do that you will log into fvwm-themes. Once you have it setup how you want to use fvwm-themes (as a wm within gnome or as a stand along wm) you will then configure it via its graphical menus. For the most part I belive if you just select the 'cde' theme once it will set it up as the default and load that theam each time you log into fvwm-themes from that point on. Last if you don't like to use gdm as the display manager, xdm and wdm are two alternatives. > 4. How can I import the GNOME menus to my FVWM menu? > I know of no direct way to just import the menus, but you can get the program menu to work in fvwm. Ubuntu (i.e. Debian) has a package called 'menu' which is a script that creates a program menus for all the software you have installed on your Ubuntu machine. You should have by default if you are using the Debian fvwm package, you should have this menu and all you have to do is call it. The menus name is just "/Debian", so if you call Popup "/Debian" you should just get the debain menu that will have all the programs. You will not of course have all the system menus and gdm menus integrated since you won't be running gnome, but the software menu you can get just fine. If Popup "/Debian" doesn't give you a menu, then you may not have a default debian fvwm package and you may have to track down the script to generate the debian menu in fvwm. Hope this is of some help, jaimos
