Best way to install ubuntu with fvwm2 Window Manager?

cl at isbd.net cl at isbd.net
Thu Oct 5 08:05:53 UTC 2006


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:43:34PM -0700, Constantine Evans wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thank you!  That's just the sort of information I wanted, almost
guaranteed to be different on every Linux distribution.

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




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