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" ]] def [[ FIG 2 target,img "" ]] sgmlify_table["\15"] = "" sgmlify_table["\15"] = "" ] [htmlize [J Edrx's Fvwm page] [P [_ fvwm Fvwm] is my favorite window manager. I used it until 2014, when I had to switch to a WM that could display the wifi status app-thingy... at that moment I couldn't make [_ stalonetray] work, and I couldn't start a secondary X server with "[_ second-X xinit -- :1.0 vt8]", so for some years I was forced to use only window managers that I didn't like.] [P Now I am starting to use Fvwm again. I am using fvwm3 [_ fvwm3-compile compiled] from [_ fvwm3-git git], with [_ pdfs-and-txts this trick] to convert all its manpages to PDFs and .txts for quicker access. I use this shell function - "[_ a]" - twice to start an X server with fvwm: when I run "a" from VT5 it runs "xinit -- :1.0 vt8", that starts a very bare X session with just an xterm, and when I run "a" in that xterm it starts fvwm, or replaces an fvwm that is already running.] [P A problem: FvwmCommand is not working. Details [_ FvwmCommand-bug here].] [br] [br] [P The rest of this page is very old.] [RULE ----------------------------------------] [HLIST1 [J I need to organize this] [L http://ironphoenix.org/tril/fvwm/] [L http://www.fvwm.org/] [L .fvwm/] [HLIST2 [AL .fvwm/.fvwm2rc] [HLIST2 [AL .fvwm/withkeys.fvwm] [AL .fvwm/nokeys.fvwm] [AL .fvwm/keys.fvwm] ] ] [J [AL eev-current/eev-langs.el#fvwm Functions] to send commands from Emacs to Fvwm.] [AL .zshrc#fvwm] [AL .emacs#my-modes] [J Running "xinit" or "X" on my home account system doesn't start any WM automatically, as I don't have a .xinitrc file - but running "a" in an xterm calls a [AL .zshrc#a zsh function] that launches fvwm.] [HLIST2 [J Obsolete files:] [AL .fvwm/.fvwm2rc0] [AL .fvwm/.fvwm2rc1] [AL .fvwm/all.fvwm] [AL .fvwm/edrx-menus.fvwm] [AL .fvwm/edrx-system.fvwm] [AL .fvwm/edrx.fvwm] [AL .fvwm/main-menu.hook] [AL .fvwm/post.hook.old] ] ] [P From 1994 to 2004 (?) I used the Linux text-mode consoles ("VT"s) almost exclusively: X was just for [IT graphical] web browsing (for most things there was [R http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29 lynx]) and for seeing .ps and .dvi files. Then I decided to fix my fvwm initizalion files, that were slightly tweaked versions of the ones by Lars Wirzenius that were the default in several GNU/Linux distributions many years before...] ] [# # Local Variables: # coding: raw-text-unix # modes: (fundamental-mode blogme-mode) # End: #]