Best way to install ubuntu with fvwm2 Window Manager?

Constantine Evans constantine at evanslabs.org
Wed Oct 4 21:43:34 UTC 2006


cl at isbd.net wrote:
> 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.

It is relatively easy to do in Ubuntu (I'm using wmii-3). "Default 
System Session" in the GDM sessions menu means "run ~/.xsession". While 
this is rather bizarre terminology, it does work quite well. You can 
always just use startx as well.

Constantine





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