🚀 go-pugleaf

David Rubie (drubie@macquarie.com.au) wrote:
: I recently installed Red Hat 4 (from the december Infomagic CD's)
: over the top of an ancient slackware.
: 
: I am tossing up whether to re-install Openwindows (basically
: because I use olwm at work), but Fvwm looks fairly reasonable.

RedHat v4.0 has openwindows installed if you install the xview package.
Just type 'openwin' from the console prompt.

: My question is, how hard is it to customise the menu?  I've
: had a (not very hard) look at the startup file, but it doesn't
: seem to mention anything about that button bar thingy at
: the bottom.  It looks like some sort of compiled executable?
: 
: How do you add your own things to it?

Fvwm takes its settings from a file called .fvwmrc naturally, the master
file for this can be found in 

	/etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc

I think from memory anyway.

The different sections in the file are pretty well seperated.    The
button bar thingy is called "GoodStuff" and is totally customizable.   If
you look at the entries there(its towards the bottom of the file) you will
get the general idea.

There is no formal documentation that I have been able to find on
customising the Fvwm setup, but through trial and error I have managed to 
change the colouring, menus, goodstuff, fonts, etc....

Adding your own customisation to .Xdefaults is a good idea as well, look in

	/usr/X11/lib/app-defaults

I think for system default settings for many X apps.

I hope this helps, i'm no X wizard and am still learning myself...


-- Cliff

  NAME: Cliff Wakefield
COURSE: Master By Coursework Information Technology Student
E-MAIL: clif@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
   WWW: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~clif/
MOBILE: 0411469175
    PC: P166, 32Mb, 5Gb, 8xCD, SB32, 17" KTX, HP 5L
  OS'S: DOS 6.x + Win 3.X / Win95 / OS/2 Merlin / Linux 2.0.29