fvwm and debian

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hi guys!

I used debian sid with fluxbox and played also a little bit with fvwm. When Sarge came out I reinstalled everything to get a clean OS (I had installed lots of stuff on sid that I used like one time and never again…). I decided to go with fvwm, because i think it’s far more light weight and has more possibilities than fluxbox. Now on debian fvwm isnt a beauty (as always :wink:) BUt it has the debian menu, which is made automaticaly whenever you apt-get something. This is great. Now I’d like to make fvwm good looking and i want to use that menu. I searched everywere for the fvwm2rc but i couldnt find it. If i chekc the .xsession-errors i get this:

[FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> Cannot read startup config file, tried: /home/meursault/.fvwm/config /usr/share/fvwm/config /home/meursault/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc /home/meursault/.fvwm2rc /usr/share/fvwm/.fvwm2rc /usr/share/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc

So I have no idea how I can make fvwm looking more appealing and integrate the menu.
I asked the guys in #debian but they dont know where the default fvwm config is.

can you help me?
thanks in advance
meursault

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By default, in Debian, there is no Fvwm config…

But you got one thing in the /etc/X11/fvwm/ directory… the menus…

So in your ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc you just type the menustyle definitions… And thats all, the menu will take the look of your choice…

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Indeed. The rationale behind this is that FvwmForn-Setup does enough of a job of providing a .fvwm2rc file, irrespective of the fact that the vanilla fvwm tarballs provide several fvwm2rc files, anyway. Yet despite this glaringly-overlooked facet, the Debian maintainer seems to think it’s still OK to not ship the other files.

– Thomas Adam

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Thanks for your answers.

I’ll now try to configure fvwm.

meursault