fvwm n00b!

psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

ive seen some screenshots and fvwm appears to be great! however this isnt the case with the default theme

.So where do i start my configuration from? how can i choose the theme that i want etc! Dont tell me to look at the fvwm thread i saw fvwm rcs applied them but i dont get any fancy decoration so can someone point me where to look?
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theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

Maybe this helps you:
http://www.rockhopper.dk/linux/software/window-managers.html#chap1
Never tried it myself though.
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psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

lol it says:
themes
coming soon

this has to be the most furstrating thing ive done! i thinks i know what the f stands for (and thats not friendly!)
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theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

The best way is to start from scratch or using taviso/ikaro's configs, they're pretty wel documented, but don't expect them to fully work on you system (due to system configuration differences)... They're great as a reference though.

I think taviso once had a guide online, but it has dissapeared:(

Sorry I couldn't really help:(
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psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

ok can u then tell me how to use one of the predefined configs? (i emerged fvwm-themes)
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Rainmaker · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

I believe there's an fvwm-themes-extra too...
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psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

i dont see a fwmrc file in the themes

barton Sessions # ls /usr/share/fvwm/themes/osx
README buttons images modules theme-name.cfg
background colors menustyle modules.cfg windowlook
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collosi · n00b Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Whittier, CA

i believe its a hidden directory, don't forget the period before you type "fvwm2rc"

theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

I don't know how you use fvwm-themes, it's something with predefined themes which imho defeats fvwm's purpose of being über configurable.

You could just grab taviso's fvwm2rc from here or ikaro's from here and then move it to a .fvwm directory in your home directory.

As I said, don't expect everything to work, you might lack programs that are used in scripts etc.
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psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

the only thing that changes with the fvwmrc is the right menu and the cursor! how teh fcuk do i change the window decoration
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codemaker · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:34 am Post subject:

Ah! Another victim of cute fvwm screenshots. I also emerged it to try it. I spent a couple of hours around it and couldn't do much...

fvwm looks promissing but it lacks good documentation. I keep reading about themes but can't find anywhere how to apply them!!

I don't have the time right now but I'll keep watching this thread.

nevynxxx · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject:

try emerging the fvwm-crystal theme, this has an installer fvwm-crystal-install.sh which you run, it asks some questions, and you have a quite nice setup.

Then you can start playing. I would recomend regular backups of the fvwm2rc though, then when you get infuriated with something not working, and you can't even get it to change back, you can just replace the file :twisted:

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codemaker · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:23 pm Post subject:

I tried that and I got this while emergeing

nevynxxx · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject:

hmmm...whats habak when its at home? Sorry can't help you there, I just emerged all the fvwm themes in one job lot, and installed crystal to start playing, havn't even changed anything yet.
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crovax123 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 159

i have a litle the same problem
but when i try to emerge fvwm-cristal i get the following error mesage

codemaker · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject:

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PseudoRE · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 39

i had the same problem when starting out
and i actully never figured out how to use the themes but crystal worked well and helped a lot actully
habak is just used to set the root window wallpaper

it might just be easiest to take taviso's .fvwm2rc file and put it in your .fvwm folder though. that way you can atleast see a some what nice looking wm even though everything probably wont work right with out a little tweaking of his config