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fvwm manpage & configuration
Hi,
I had some time on my hands due to the holiday season. I wish to migrate from xfce to fvwm (the one in base). There are some nifty rices out there on r/unixporn (mostly fvwm3+, not 2.2.5) and I thought I'd give it a go. I have made a list of what packages other people use which are available on OpenBSD ports. I do not know how to make fvwm use these packages (conky, redshift, dunst, compton, rofi, polybar, picom, alacritty, etc.) I could not find manpages of fvwm and do not know where to begin. Any help appreciated. |
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$ man fvwm . Here's an HTML version.
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fvwm3 is in ports, you can use pkg_add(1) to install it. To 'make' fvwm3 use these items are out of the scope of OpenBSD. Learning fvwm[23] configuration is what is needed. Google has lots of information on fvwm2 config and there are plenty of examples. Right now, for configuration, a recent version of fvwm2 and fvwm3 are pretty much the same. The version of fvwm in OpenSD base has differences though. in the manual, study "Style" and the manuals for various modules, like FvwmButtons(1)
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Thank you for your reply.
I'm asking how to "make" fvwm2 (which is in base), use say conky Quote:
Update: My /etc/man.conf was bad and hence no access to manpages. I will definitely google after going through the manpages, and if there is some interest will post my config here. Followup question - What would you suggest? fvwm 2.2.5 from base or the newer one from ports? Last edited by pseudostem; 16th December 2022 at 07:03 AM. |
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Likely 'base' FVWM has had slight changes from standard, a typical OpenBSD 'feature' for securing base programs, so I think that I'd stick with the supplied version.
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If you're using xenodm (which you should be) then add the commands for conky & fvwm (along with any other programs you want to be started) to ~/.xsession, as per the SESSION PROGRAM section of xenodm(1).
Something like this should do: Code:
conky & exec fvwm If you're not using xenodm then add the commands to ~/.xinitrc instead. That will be read when startx is run.Quote:
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As you may know, for conky you will need a ~/.conkyrc. There are a lot of examples of those under google. The largest difference is getting battery and Temperatures. You will probably need to use "/usr/sbin/apm" and "/sbin/sysctl" and parse output to get battery status and various Temperatures.
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