Richard Weltman wrote:
> 
> please can anyone point me in the direction
> of something similar to Bob Nestor's - X how to,
> for information on fvwm2 with X ?
> (it covers configuration for xdm, but not fvwm)
> 
> I have X11R6 installed and working on NetBSD 1.5,
> and fvwm2 compiled and installed. after login, the command
> fvwm2, gives - FVWM:unable to open device error; and startx,
> followed by fvwm2, gives - FVWM:another window manager already
> in use error.

For "startx", create a file ~/.xinitrc that contains

  exec fvm2

as the last line. You can have other commands in there, too. Typically
you'll set environment variables for programs that are invoked by the
window manager (like for instance "export NNTPSERVER=news.poptel.org.uk"
for your newsreader), but always the last thing is to invoke the window
manager.

For "xdm", the file to to edit is ~/.xsession.