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Re: Please help me choose a window manager

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root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
> I have run into a problem trying to upgrade to 64 bit multilib. Using
> fvwm95, the 64 bit Nvidia driver shows the task bar of the display on
> the vga monitor, and the buttons on the hdmi display.

It is likely that the version of fvwm95 you are using does not have
support for multi-monitor setups, given this result.

> Since the fvwm95 manager is quite old, I first tried to fetch an
> updated version from Slackbuild but that version would not build for
> 14.1 multilib.

> I then went back to Slackware source for Slack 9 and recompiled that
> source using the 64 bit compiler which did work. However that did not
> fix or even change the display problem.

The source in Slack9 is probably also old enough to not have any code
to support multi-monitor configurations.

> I spent a good part of a day experimenting with the fvwm manager
> trying to get an acceptible environment but I have not been
> successful.

Clarification - on modern Slackwares, this is actually the fvwm2 window
manager.  Is that the one you are using?  (there was also an actual
"fvwm" years ago, which is why I'm asking).

> I need a very simple display: half a dozen or so full screen xterms,
> and the ability to click and select among these displays. fvwm95 is
> perfect for this since the TaskBar allows allows the selection and a
> small collection of buttons allows other functions such as pulling up
> Chrome.

If you are in fact using fvwm2 (this is likely, but only you can
confirm), then you are likely looking for the fvwm2 extension modules
[1] FvwmIconMan and/or FvwmTaskBar.

  man FvwmIconMan
  man FvwmTaskBar

If you actually have fvwm2 and you can read the man pages for both. 
One of those two, maybe with some configuration tweaking, will likely
create something that if not matches will closefully enough approixmate
your description above to get you going again.



[1] a lot of the quasi 'desktop environment' aspects of fvwm2 is
provided by extension modules, rather than directly by fvwm2 itself.

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Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 16:42 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 17:10 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 17:53 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 18:24 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 20:20 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 20:42 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 21:31 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 23:29 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 17:26 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 19:01 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 21:25 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 21:57 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 22:41 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 22:40 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 01:20 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 22:39 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 01:28 +0000
              Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 03:13 +0000
                Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-14 11:56 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-14 05:34 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-14 01:50 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 03:20 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-14 07:02 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 14:45 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-14 16:28 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 17:31 +0000

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