fvwm unable to initialize in Kubuntu 8.10...[startx fvwm]

[Constantinos Maltezos]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 12:41:42 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> It would appear that on Jan 28, kk did say:
> > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > > Could somebody give me a clue how to start an fvwm session
> > > in Kubuntu???
> >
> > Looking at the startx man page, I would guess that "startx fvwm" should
> > work.
>
> That was my first assumption when I _tried_ to understand the startx
> man page Karl. But this didn't seem to work. Fortunately somebody
> told me about the ~/.xinitrc file which is able to point startx at
> fvwm... But thanks for the response.

You know, it might work to specify the full path of the executable after 
startx.  I haven't logged in from the console in a while, so I don't remember.