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aledie

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Registered: 2018-02-21

Posts: 58

fvwm-crystal?

Hello, anyone had a working fvwm-crystal on Slitaz 5.0? Which PKG did you convert or maybe compiled already tazpkg for slitaz?

I tried to convert older Deb from Wheezy (fvwm2 libc => 2.13, and newest fvwm-crystal from stretch, which should actually work with this version. Both don't want to work. There is also no menu F1 at slim for (by the way many other choices from e17 to Jwm which aren't even installed). Modifying .xinitrc with exec fwvm, fwvm2 or fvwm-crystal doesn't even add them to F1 slim list at login. Typing exec fvwm in terminal spots shall check the locale. Fvwm-crystal cannot be found.

aledie

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Registered: 2018-02-21

Posts: 58

Re: fvwm-crystal?

-Tried compiling the latest FVWM tarball with ./configure, make, make install. Cannot be started because of locale error (described in my other post). As I understand Fvwm-crystal is rather a theme package should be installed on the top of FVWM2, so need to get the first working first.

-i also realised that FVWM doesn't add to the slim F1 menu. Also by editing .xinitrc, or applications.conf etc. files (exec fvwm2) it doesn't work.

-i also realised that some of the WMs you find in tazx setting menu don't add to SLIM F1 list after being installed. Some do but don't start (to mention awesome, ratpoison, echonius ... don't work), while among others working some are clearly noone would ever use - karmen to make a sample. Probably someone should look at tazx application and cleanup a little. Openbox, Fluxbox, Enlightenment, pekwm, jwm, dwm maybe worth keeping, some others probably hanging there since middleages.

- Would be good idea adding there some few new things (I really liked Fvwm and it's fvwm-crystal variation, which is quite lightweight too, and some others some people use currently like i3wm, or others you have in repos.

These are just my impartial ideas, someone else may like some exotic em like karmen, no offence.

Back to the topic, has anyone got fvwm2 (and fvwm-crystal) working on slitaz? How, mind to share? I only found one past here on forum few years back with a screenshot from someone using Fvwm):

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-fvwm2-cde-like-common-desktop-environment

aledie

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Registered: 2018-02-21

Posts: 58

Re: fvwm-crystal?

1) Compiled the latest FVWM2 version 2.6.7 with cook in a private wok, from here: http://www.fvwm.org/

attach the receipt (which automatically downloads the tarball) if anyone interested to test, along with a screenshot. Seems to work just fine, just FVWM assumes a lot of configurations and editing files to customize, which I am not eager to.

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2) So practically could install some shiny userfriendly theme/ variation on the top, which makes the customization and work easier for an average joe, like:

FVWM-crystal: http://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.net/

FVWM Nightshade: http://fvwm-nightshade.github.io/Fvwm-Nightshade/