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Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06:00PM +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
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>>> Chris G wrote:
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>> Because it might break something and this is my desktop system which I
>> need to have working.
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> Sure. But what would you think happens to your working xfce
> system after you add fvwm2 to your installed software?
>
> Exactly: Nothing, it will work just as it did before, you
> will have another wm choice in your list of installed GUIs
> and that's about it.
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> I don't have two systems to compare either,
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>> currently I use xubuntu (i.e. xfce4 desktop), it's not trivial to
>> change to ubuntu (and gnome) just to see if fvwm2 acts differently in
>> that environment.
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> why should you do this. Fvwm2 does not depend on gnome and
> vice versa. Actually it is one of the oldest wms and was
> invented decades before xfce, KDE, Gnome came into existence.
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>> There are lots of (for example) configuration utilities which are
>> specific to either Gnome or Xfce and what I'm asking is how well these
>> integrate with fvwm2.  I.e. does the ubuntu fvwm2 installation use (or
>> try to use) any of these?  If it does it will probably work better whe
>> installed 'on top of' Ubuntu/Gnome rather than Xfce4.
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> AFAIK fvwm generally has no configuration utilities except
> manually changing the configuration file syntax.
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> Other than that, generally, any application that works on
> your current desktop, will work on FVWM2, just as well.
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> Kind regards
> Eberhard
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