On 20/06/10 22:44, Andersen Fan wrote: > I'm not sure ,but you can have a try > > 2,/etc/rc.conf : > #XSESSION="Gnome" > XSESSION="Xsession" > > 1,/home/user/.xsession : > exec fvwm >> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:00:47 +1000 >> From: jakesaddr...@gmail.com >> To: fvwm@fvwm.org >> Subject: Re: FVWM: question >> >> On 20/06/10 15:06, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: >>> 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 >> If you use FVWM as your sole window manager (i.e., not through Gnome), a >> way that worked for me is to use xdg_menu from ArchLinux to generate a >> KDE (and Gnome, and LXDE, and XFCE) menu that I can put into my FVWM >> menu, like so: >> >> PipeRead "/usr/local/bin/xdg_menu --format fvwm2 --root-menu >> /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu | sed -e 's/xdg_menu/gnome_menu/' >> 2>/dev/null" >> PipeRead "/usr/local/bin/xdg_menu --format fvwm2 --root-menu >> /etc/xdg/menus/kde-4.3-applications.menu | sed -e 's/xdg_menu/kde_menu/' >> 2>/dev/null" >> PipeRead "/usr/local/bin/xdg_menu --format fvwm2 --root-menu >> /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu | sed -e 's/xdg_menu/lxde_menu/' >> 2>/dev/null" >> PipeRead "/usr/local/bin/xdg_menu --format fvwm2 --root-menu >> /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu | sed -e 's/xdg_menu/xfce_menu/' >> 2>/dev/null" >> >> See http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm@fvwm.org/msg01191.html for my >> mailing list query about it. >> >> Jake Moe >> >> PS: I've got all four DE menus in there so I can try to compare them and >> see which one I like best. I've noticed since I've added this, that my >> FVWM startup time has increased, but it's still quick enough for now. >> Eventually, I'll probably cut out three and stick with whichever menu I >> like best. > ________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. > https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 If you're asking me to try putting those lines in those two files, then I'm not sure it's going to work. I use Gentoo and only boot to a command-line; I don't use gdm/kdm/xdm, so if I understand correctly, the Xsession variable won't do anything for me. Plus, I don't have a .xsession file in my home dir; my WM is controlled by a .xinitrc file. In my .xinitrc, I've got:
~/.xinitrc dbus-launch fvwm HTH Jake Moe PS: Next time, reply to the whole list, because while I can't help you, someone else may be able to.
