* Pierre-Yves Rofes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-01-05 11:42]: > Hi, > > I think starting a new configuration from scratch is a really bad idea. > It's boring and it will require hours to have something decent. > You'd better to get a working config close from what you want, and then > edit it to suit your personal needs and tastes.
Yeah, I agree to that. It's easier to adapt the someone's config than start a new one from a scratch mainly beacuse you need to have a picture of what you want from your WM and a right directions to start. I know I should need menu, taskbar and pager, but what to read, where to start from? If you're convicted only to a man pages then that's PITA. It will take hours to figure out what sections of which man pages to read. Written tutorials help a bit, but still it takes quite a lot to become familiar with a simple options. IMHO, fvwm has a lack of the good structured and a heavily cross linked documentation, the one like mutt and mplayer have. There are so many options, available keywords that can't be just bundled in a single man pages. There were also some proposals of the default configuration which is good as a guideline, but I'm sure that it wouldn't present not even the third of the available customizations. So as a result you're ending up with a heavy research of forums, mail lists, available configs, wiki and that takes time... [...] -- Daniel Vrcic -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
