ok im running cygwin, got fvwm running, what the basic configs i can apply?
Umm, you’re looking in the right place — poke around the ‘Screenshots and configs’ section of this forum. Or indeed, have a look on the fvwmwiki
– Thomas Adam
guess i havent got fvwm working. its pretty hard to work out some of the installation guides when working on cygwin.
is there Begineer guide for fvwm? i dunno where im at before i download fvwm. teacher just told me to replace REM run fvwm? does that do the trick? if not do i need to install seperate fvwm?
i can connect to university’s, by ssh, i can open xterm, but command “fvwm” does not work!!
http://www.fvwmwiki.org/Tutorials
– Thomas Adam
thanks for the reply. as for reason those websites dont work for me!
when i try to run ./configure, which i believe is the command to install fvwm2, it says …no C complier found.
So install ‘gcc’ along with the development files needed. For FVWM, you will need xlibs-dev — although what makes you think you need to compile FVWM?
– Thomas Adam
compile, im just following the install file!
From what I can see from cygwin.com/packages/ is that you don’t need to compile it for yourself. The one you can install from the cygwin package repo is in its binary, ready-to-run form.
This page explains how to proceed after installing fvwm from cygwin package: fynu.ucl.ac.be/users/x.rouby/cygwin/
Now you can be pretty sure you have fvwm running. After that, you can read Thomas’ reply again 
followed that website, installed some more extra files. changed
REM run twm to REM run fvwm2 in the startxwin.bat file.
then?
You dont’ want to ‘REM run fvwm2’ – you’d want to un-REM it to start fvwm.
– Thomas Adam
REM
REM Startup the twm window manager.
REM WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with
REM the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin. Doing so
REM would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen.
REM
REM run fvwm2
REM Set a background color. Only needed when not using -multwindow for XWin.
REM run xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
SET XWINLOADED=YESman im confused! i dont think i got the right files to run fvwm2, in c:\cygwin\home\sercan\
all i got is ssh folder and few files, nothing like fvwm.
Check this thread out.
http://fvwm.lair.be/viewtopic.php?t=738&highlight=
thanks for the reply. you see i could be here for days, the thing i dont get is, where do i stand, do i need to install fvwm2? how do i install fvwm2, how do i create a .xinitrx file?
Generally we like to sit down at computers… 
You do need to install FVWM, yes. How else do you expect to use it? (You won’t need to compile it, that’s for sure.)
That’s a bit like asking: “How do I drive a car? Do I use my teeth?”. What you need to do is to take a step back for a moment and try to understand what’s happening before you do it. That way you will learn a hell of a lot more.
As for how you install FVWM – you select it via ‘setup.exe’ that CygWin provides. As to how you create a ~/.xinitrc file, you envoke an editor (Install ‘nano’ whilst you’re at it) to do this. As to what that file contains, see the previous URL mentioned to you.
– Thomas Adam
