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zenx

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Registered: 2007-10-28

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Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

Hello everyone

I am new to arch, but I have overall knowledge in linux, and I'd like to install the previously mentionend WM. The problem is that I dont know how to even add a repository, and what repository I should add. So, any overall advice on this matter is welcome Thanks in advance!

shen

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Registered: 2003-09-05

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

at cli as root type pacman -Syu then pacman -Sy fvwm and ya should be all set..

zenx

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Registered: 2007-10-28

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

at cli as root type pacman -Syu then pacman -Sy fvwm and ya should be all set..

But that just installs the basic fvwm, not the fvwm-crystal..:|

cu3edweb

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Registered: 2007-10-07

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

fvwm-crystal is in unstable. You need to edit your

/etc/pacman.conf

[unstable]                                                <--------- UNMARK THIS
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/unstable                          <--------- UNMARK THIS

so you have access to unstable packages and then

pacman -Sy fvwm-crystal

at this point once you have installed then you can go back to pacman.conf and recheck unstable so you aren't running an unstable system.

fvwm-crystal is still at version 3.0.4 so you will have to manually upgrade to 3.0.5 if you want that one.

If memory serves me correctly that should work.

Last edited by cu3edweb (2007-10-28 14:42:03)

zenx

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Registered: 2007-10-28

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

Thank you! Now I have it installed, but still have a problem: I can't find my xorg.conf, and I think I should edit it so fvwm-crystal could work.. So, where is it by default, or is there somekind of a search function?:P

phperl

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Registered: 2007-10-03

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

run Xorg -configure ,will automatically generate xorg.conf.new,you can edit it.

shen

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Registered: 2003-09-05

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

at cli as root type pacman -Syu then pacman -Sy fvwm and ya should be all set..

But that just installs the basic fvwm, not the fvwm-crystal..:|

Oh sorry about that I completely misread the post..At least someone came in and picked up the pieces..:)

zenx

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Registered: 2007-10-28

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

run Xorg -configure ,will automatically generate xorg.conf.new,you can edit it.

When I run that, I get a message saying

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting.

Aborted.

Confusing:rolleyes:

aris002

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-03-21

Posts: 75

Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
or if you need to find files in the future one useful thing is e.g

$locate xorg.conf

or another (to find packages):

$psearch fvwm-crystal

or

$pacman -Ss fvwm-crystal

or to find any file you can search archlinux website with google:

site:archlinux.org /xorg.conf

site:
also there is:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg7

zenx

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Registered: 2007-10-28

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

Ok, now my xorg.conf is in order. But still when i command

fvwm-crystal

I get an error like this:

[fvwm][main]: <<ERROR>> can't open display

So what now?

aris002

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-03-21

Posts: 75

Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

from where you:

fvwm-crystal

?
shouldn't you place

exec fvwm-crystal

into ~.xinitrc or strart from gdm or similar?

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

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Re: Installing FVWM-Crystal on Arch (2.6.23-ARCH i686 Mobile)

Better use stable things.