From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKuI9-0006nw-84 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:01:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8T8rA39010978; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:53:10 GMT Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8T8nWpj017313 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:49:32 GMT Received: from aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050929085653.IWVU21883.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:56:53 +0100 Received: from winn.cable.ntl.com ([82.5.33.210]) by aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050929085653.HEQG13031.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@winn.cable.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:56:53 +0100 From: Tony Davison Organization: none To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!! Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:56:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <433AF025.1090208@planet.nl> <200509282209.54127.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> <433B1CD5.6040101@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <433B1CD5.6040101@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509290956.50468.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7b5fad7f-7665-4d3a-9b48-fc172dcd3375 X-Archives-Hash: 2ae43652e6574c9c40f90988b8e4797c On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:44, Holly Bostick wrote: > Tony Davison schreef: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. > > > > > > > >>This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I > >>think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup > >>somewhere, but the site doesn't say anything about it, that I saw. > >> > >>Does anybody happen to follow development of this and know what > >>happened? > >> > >>I'm just stunned (in a good way). > > > > OK I'll bite but does anyone know how to get KDE to play nicely > > with it. I've b*****d about with the ksmserver bit of startkde > > until I thoroughly broke it but when it aint broke it resolutely > > refuses to have anything to do with any wm apart fron kwin or > > KDEWM. > > Stumped, on my last cig and this wheelchair has no lights. > > Sorry-- that's one of the reasons I use GDM (even under KDE, but I > use KDE very very rarely). > > What I would think is that you'd want to copy the > fvwm-crystal.desktop file from > > /usr/share/xsessions > > to > > /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/kdm/sessions > > so that it appears as a choice in KDM. > > Why you'd expect the *startkde* script to start anything other than > KDE rather eludes me, I must admit. > > :) Its OK I got it working impressive it is. With the last gasp of my grey cells last night I emerged GDM (I only had XDM on this system) and lo there it was. As for startkde, I was guilty of reading the FVWM FAQ :-) -- Tony Davison tony.davison2@ntlworld.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list