Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

OK! Finally got it working after the install.sh fix. To run fvmwm2, though, I couldnt just type fvmw2 in xterm. I had to enter /usr/local/bin/fvwm2
Thanks iiiedokeiii!

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

This even works with KDE. The desktop is put in its own window and the panels stay right where they were. It sounds like a dumb idea to run it with KDE, but I tried opening Konquerer and it seemed to open/run faster than usual (maybe just imaging things.) I'll have to experiment more with this :)

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Thats cool. I opened kicker the other day with remote forwarding so I could have the menu to easily play with other programs. Ive been wanting to open a desktop but couldn't get nautilus to spawn a desktop on it (I normally run gnome). I'll have to try the KDE desktop for kicks.

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Hey, I got it to stop via dsmetool just fine...

In my case, you gotta do a:Then it closes cleanly. I'm gonna mash up a script that does this for whatever settings; I think it's a bit cleaner than disabling the auto-restart.

EDIT: Here ya go:

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Ok, or maybe one better... get the existing code to do all the work for us.

Call that with either start or stop arguments to start or stop matchbox.

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Very Nice. I've tried to stop it using the exact args it was started with, but I guess I never was able to form the command correctly. This makes things much nicer. Thanks :)

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

stupid newb question:

First download the tar file:
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~phillc3/fvwm2.tar
Copy it to your tablet: (Or just download it there)
I downloaded the file....and copied it to /home/user/ directory...

become root: (Here are some methods)
sudu su (If you are in your sudoers)
sudo gainroot (If becomeroot installed)
ssh method (if ssh client installed)
I got Root....

cd to root directory:
cd /
Did this too.....

untar:
tar -xvf /home/user/fvmw2.tar
But the tar command gives me a "Cant open '/home/user/fvmw2.tar' : No such file or directory
But I can 'ls' and the tar file is there.....

Any ideas....? :(
Thanks so much for your help,
Steve

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Well, it should be fvwm2.tar; transposition. There's a few such things through here...

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Yes...that allowed me to tar....thanks.

But when I do the killall matchbox-window it just restarts the matchbox....and it wont let me do it as root....I have to exit.

Isnt there an way to add this all to a script, so I can just click on a button and it kills matchbox and brings FVWM up and runs it....? I am going to be having to do this pretty frequently.

Any ideas or help would be great....thanks again Benson

Steve

Re: Decent Window Manager (FVWM2) Ported To Diablo
 

Yeah, I tend to saf things bass ackwards sowetimes, especially in these late night posts. If I remember correctly you need to run the install script then restart before you will permanently aable to kill matchbox. The script copies a modified startup script for matchbox that allows it to be killed. As far starting and stopping it, I added the commands to my cpu status bar applet.

~Cody