Re: Fvwm2. Was: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Nicolas George wrote:
>> [fvwm2] it seems ill-loved by Debian maintainers:
>
>the old fart user to get it to run "As It Always Was" (TM).
>
>Google "fvwm2rc" finds the configuration of Eric S. Raymond,
>color marked examples, starter examples, ...
>
>After installation of fvwm2 there are man pages for the
>fvwm2 commands. E.g. man FvwmButtons. So one can look up
>the commands used in the configurations and try them
>interactively with FvwmConsole.

At least a few years ago, fvwm shipped with an old copy of my fvwm
config as a "complex" example, using m4 as a preprocessor. But it
looks like it's not there any more. In case it's interesting, it's up
at

  http://www.einval.com/~steve/debian/fvwm2rc.example

Shout if anything is unclear!

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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