how to start fvwm from the console command line?

[Andras Simon]

2012/2/29, stan <gryt2 at q.com>:

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> A possibility I haven't pursued yet is
> http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/
> and there look to be some great themes there.  That is supposed to
> start with a simple
> fvwm-themes-start
> from a console.  Fedora doesn't seem to have that as a package, so I'll
> compile and install it from tarball.  It seems fairly old, so
> might be obsolete.  If that works, I'll upgrade to the latest fvwm
> (2.6.4).  I wanted to kick the tires on fvwm before I invested a lot of
> time and effort in it.  There are lots of great config files on the web
> I wanted to try.  Looks like that plan isn't going to work without some
> modification.

Can't you simply start X with startx and put
exec /path/to/fvwm
as the last line into ~/.Xclients (and make it executable)?

Andras