Re: fvwm2 and startxwin

[Stephen More <stephen dot more at gmail dot com>]

Thanks for all your help Jon.

My final solution is this shortcut:
      C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx
/usr/bin/fvwm2 -- -rootless"



On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 02/03/2010 01:22, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>
>> Start the x server using 'startx -- -rootless' and start fvwm2 from your
>> .xinitrc file (typically by making 'exec fvwm2' the last line. NB this
>> does not end with an '&')
>>
>> If you aren't interested in starting other programs from your .xinintrc,
>> you can just do 'startx fvwm2 -- -rootless' for the all in one solution
>> :-)
>
> Oops. ?I mean 'startx /usr/bin/fvwm2 -- -rootless'
>
> (as man xinit says, the client supplied to startx or xinit must begin with /
> or ., otherwise it's treated as client arguments to the default xterm)
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