{"id":389,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:41","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-222","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=389","title":{"rendered":"Windows Look-n-Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"\nWindows Look-n-Feel<\/title>\n<p>\nAn important aspect is the appearance. Many users shy aware from Linux because it looks different.\nAlthough what most users are referring to is a specific windows manager (one of many, as opposed to\nthe single, proprietary <glossary>GUI<\/glossary>\nprovided by Windows), this is the visual representation of Linux that\nmost users are familiar with. Because each of the different windows manager has a different way in\nwhich you interact, how familiar you are with that interface defines how well you can work with it,\nwhich in turn defines how comfortable you are with it. Since the default windows manager on many\nLinux systems has a completely different appearance from Windows 9x\/NT newcomers are often confused\nif not intimidated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe solution is to provide a window manager that is more familiar for the user. One alternative is\nthe KDE or Gnome, configured as the default window manager by SuSE and RedHat, respectively. Both\nprovide a similar look and feel to Windows. Although they are similar, there are enough differences\nto throw people off. Fortunately, there is help in the form of the fvwm95-2 window manager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs it’s name implies, the fvwm95 is designed to look like the <glossary>Windows 95<\/glossary>.\n Although there are a few\nslight differences, to general look and feel is that of Windows NT (of course, Windows 98 and\nWindows NT 4.0, as well). If you take a <b>quick<\/b> look at Figure 1, it is likely that you think you\nare looking at <glossary>Windows 95<\/glossary>.\nHowever, the trained eye can pick up a few difference. (Such as the fact\nthe button used to shutdown the system is actually called “Shutdown” and not “Start”.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first step is to make sure that fvwm95 is installed on your system. Like the other window\nmanagers, fvwm95 resides in the bin directory under \/usr\/X11 (which may actually be a link to\n\/usr\/X11R). If the file fvwm95 is not there, you could search for it on your system, but it probably\nhas not been installed (assuming all of the other window managers are located in \/usr\/X11\/bin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCheck your distribution to see if you have it. Depending on the number of CD that you have, fvwm95\nmay not be included. If you cannot find it, it is often available on the FTP site for your\ndistribution. However, many of them don’t. If you cannot find it, try the SuSE <glossary>ftp<\/glossary>\nsite:\n<a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.suse.com\/pub\/suse\/\">\nftp:\/\/ftp.suse.com\/pub\/suse\/<\/a>. As you can see, this is an <glossary>RPM<\/glossary> File, so just copy it to somewhere safe and run <\/p>\n<p>\n<commandexample command=\"rpm\">rpm -i<\/commandexample>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nto install it. You can also find it as a gzip-tar archive in\n<a href=\"http:\/\/metalab.unc.edu\/pub\/Linux\/X11\/window-managers\/\">\nhttp:\/\/metalab.unc.edu\/pub\/Linux\/X11\/window-managers\/<\/a>\n<p>\nThe files <file type=\"\">~\/.xinitrc<\/file> and <file type=\"\">~\/.xsession<\/file> check the value of the <glossary>environment<\/glossary>\n<glossary>variable<\/glossary> WINDOWMANAGER.\nThis <glossary>variable<\/glossary>\nspecifies, which <glossary>binary<\/glossary>\n(program file) will be started. If the variable isn’t set, the\ndefault value is used, which is typically the fvwm window manager. To set your window manager to\nfvw95, look in one of the two files mentioned previously. If the WINDOWMANAGER is not set, you can\nadd a line that looks like this:\n<p>\n<commandexample command=\"export\">export WINDOWMANAGER=\/usr\/X11R6\/bin\/fvwm95<\/commandexample>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Look-n-Feel An important aspect is the appearance. 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