Best way to install ubuntu with fvwm2 Window Manager?

[cl at isbd.net]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:28:46AM -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:18:10AM +0100, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > I want to run ubuntu with the FVWM2 Window manager.  What's the best
> > way to install:-
> > 
> >     Install Ubuntu Desktop and then 'switch off' Gnome and use FVWM2
> >     instead.
> > 
> > or:-
> > 
> >     Install Ubuntu Server and add all the bits I need to run X and
> >     thus FVWM2.
> 
> I would personally go with this second option... Alternatively, you
> can try to use the "Alternative Install," which I know very little
> about since I haven't tried it before.
> 
> Either way, this would allow you to have somewhat less on your
> machine, but still would take a little more work. If you don't really
> care if Gnome is sitting on your machine, then the first option would
> actually be considerably easier. If space is an issue, though...
> 
No, space isn't an issue, I'm more concerned about non-standard ways
used to start X up.  Nearly all distributions do their own thing as
regards X start-up and it can be a real pain to disentangle them
sometimes in order to get another X Window manager running.


> > Also does Ubuntu Desktop have *everything* that's in Ubuntu Server?
> > My home Linux system is both my desktop machine *and* a home network
> > server so I want an X desktop and a LAMP server.
> 
> I'm not completely sure on this, but I think the server installs some
> slightly different stuff by default. Most likely the installer will
> tell you whether or not they are the same apart from having X.
> 
I've investigated further and there are pretty simple instructions for
opening LAMP on Ubuntu Desktop on the Ubuntu web site. So at least
adding LAMP to Desktop is easy.

Thanks for your ideas.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)