[95883] in RedHat Linux List
sort of have kdm working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick O'Neil)
Wed Oct 21 23:02:04 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 02:57:24 +0000
From: "Patrick O'Neil" <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
To: redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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After screwing around for a long evening, I have gotten
kdm to run and start a couple of different wms. I can
start kde with no problem (as a user) but if I select
enlightenment, it will not start. I get kicked back
to kdm. I can start enlightenment, sortof, if I login
and select "failsafe", a terminal window, and enter
"enlightenment". It will then start but without sound.
If I start enlightenment as root in this way, I DO
get sound.
If I select fvwm (to start fvwm2), at first it doesn't
appear to have worked because the kdm background (Linux
banner with the penguin wearing a redhat) doesn't go away.
If I hit one of the mouse buttons, however, an fvwm2 menu
box appears and I am able to run different apps. If one of
these app windows happens to fall over the penguin or linux
logo and I then subsequently close or move that window, the
part of the penguin or logo that was covered vanishes, leaving
just the default green background.
Any idears?
What finally seems to have gotten things THIS far is this
bit of editing of my .xinitrc file (before I just had
"startkde":
---------------------------------------
ifelse(WM_NAME, kde, [
exec startkde
])
ifelse(WM_NAME, enlightenment, [
exec /usr/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment
])
ifelse(WM_NAME, icewm, [
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
])
ifelse(WM_NAME, fvwm, [
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
])
ifelse(WM_NAME, failsafe, [
exec xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51
])
---------------------------------------
Do I need something more than this somewhere to make
all wms work perfectly?
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Padraig UiNiall
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