problem with FVWM, fvwm is GORGEOUS though

blhack · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 11

if your me, and your sortof fed up the the size of KDE, DON"T, i repeat DO NOT start searching for fvwm-crystal, you will become suicidal! fvwm-crystal is GORGEOUS, absolutely fantastic looking. It's what i thought linux would look like before i got linux. so i emerge fvwm, then i emerged fvwm-crystal. I changed .xinitrc to
exec fvwm2 wow was i surprised when i ran startx. I was like holy cRAP, hello windows 3.1! WTF, where is my beautiful translucent menus, and depressed looking anime' character!

. I have looked EVERYWHERE, i can think, but nowhere does it tell me how to actually install an FVWM theme! Gentoo users, oh gods' of the linux world, if anybody can help me you cAN! please!!!!! what have i not done correctly?

robet · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:57 am Post subject:

Try following the install instructions in the ebuild in /usr/portage/x11-themes/fvwm-crystal/.
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Blizzillica · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 6

Funny. I got the fvwm-crystal package but when trying to compile it, it says something like "your fvwm version is 2.5.10 which is older than the current version of 2.5.8". (The actual #s might be different, but you get my point).
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dswissmiss · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 498 Location: New York

try here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_FVWM

I guess try fvwm-crystal in your .xinitrc
let me know if I'm right...so I can give crystal a try myself sometime.

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

IMHO the best way to install fvwm-crystal is to copy what is in /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm in ~/.fvwm (you can then easily modify the config files is something goes wrong)
Then just use fvwm2 or fvwm-crystal to launch fvwm. I just did it quickly that way and it seems to work

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

codedmart · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:28 am Post subject:

I use fvwm-crystal and know quite a bit about it now. First off I highly recommend fvwm-2.5.12 and fvwm-crystal-12-24-2004.

Karnevil was quite right in that everything that is emerged into /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm should be copied over to ~/.fvwm for purposes of editing and upgrading.

At the end of the ebuild did you follow the instructions. I can't remember what they were off the top of my head but you needed to copy .Xsession from /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/addons to your home dir. and there might have been something else but I will check the ebuild later.

Fvwm-crystal is excellent and there is alot of features that are there so stick with it. Post exactly what is going on if you are still having problems. I have figured most everything for crystal so don't hesitate to ask.

kleeks · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 22

Well i haven't gotten round to copying the files into my home dir (will do soon, its about time for an upgrade - handy hint that ), but have had no serious problems with crystals use
Its been a fair few months now, and yes it does look gorgeous.

Some niggles getting it to read my .Xresources properly - i finally had to add the line