Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice.
It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off. More embedded below and at the end. - Mark On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. > <SNIP> > > I upgraded and just now booted into it, which is why I'm sitting with my > jaw on the floor. Cover it if you're still spreading germs! ;-) > > It works...! > > It's gorgeous...! It's now running on my AMD64 machine and it is quite pretty. > > The new site is up, and it's in English...! (no docs yet, though, as far > as I saw.) > > I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but all > transparent), and when I click on one of the icons-- let's say the OO.o > icon, a menu that actually has all my word processing programs appears! > The Firefox icon menu shows all my 'interact with the web' apps, and the > thunderbird icon menu has all my 'communicate with others' programs. > > OK, maybe not quite all of them, but almost. More than enough to get > along with and give me some choice (I have multiple alternatives > applications for some types of usage situations), and enough to see that > 1) both KDE and GNOME menu listings are being read, and 2) applications > are being recognized and sorted reasonably appropriately. I probably > will want to customize it a bit further, but on the whole, I would say > it JustWorks-- it's certainly useable for me, as is, out of the box. > Which is unbelievable, for any variant of FVWM, imo. I don't quite see this part. Maybe I haven't found them yet. It's only been runnign 10 minutes or so. One thing I do not see is my special little application drawers I had on my Gnome panel. Not a biggie... > > This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I > think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup > somewhere, but the site doesn't say anything about it, that I saw. > > Does anybody happen to follow development of this and know what happened? > > I'm just stunned (in a good way). > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > There were some setup instructions at the very end: * * After installation, execute following commands: * $ cp -r /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/addons/Xresources ~/.Xresources * $ cp -r /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/addons/Xsession ~/.xinitrc * * Authors of fvwm-crystal recommend also installing * the following applications: * app-admin/gkrellm * app-misc/rox * media-gfx/scrot * x11-misc/xlockmore * x11-misc/xpad * x11-misc/xscreensaver * x11-terms/aterm * How much of this did you do? I've done none and it's running. Quite nice. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
