Re: using olvwm as the window manager

[Stephen Kühn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:59, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
> I have a fresh installation of Fedora2 and I want to make olvwm the default 
> window manager. I have tried several things and I can actually get olvwm 
> running, but it never reads my user setup files, so if I change my 
> background color or something like that, the next time I log in its back to 
> the original. I am not sure that I have it set up correct. If anyone knows 
> how I should be doing this, please let me know. If you can give me a 
> step-by-step instruction I would appreciate it so I can try to figure out 
> where I went wrong.
> 
> Thanks!
> Miranda

I have had that setup, but I was in runlevel 3 (editing the /etc/inittab
and changing the default from 5 to 3); and when starting OLVWM I use the
"openwin" command; is this what you're doing, or have you set it up to
start otherwise?

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