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Re: no window manager works?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Thu Nov 5 20:59:59 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:53:55 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Statux wrote:
> install it, do what the thing says... if it doesn't change things to work
> with X correctly.. then I would uninsiall X, reinstall X, and install Window
> Maker and um.. yeah :)
With all due respect this is not good advice. Whenever people report
having uninstalled and reinstalled X to solve some problem, they've done
it in desperation because they don't know what the real trouble is, and
all it ever seems to do is waste time. Besides, X is distinct from its
window managers. If AnotherLevel works, then fvwm2 works, and X is not
broken; your method for starting a window manager is.
Create the file ~/.Xclients to start your window manager. Make sure you
give it execute permission. Make sure it starts by declaring a shell.
Make sure it finishes by executing a window manager. If you use #!/bin/sh
at the start of the file, use 'exec <window manger executable>' to finish.
I'll bet you've got all that, in which case I suggest the following steps:
% cd
% ln -s .Xclients .xinitrc
% ln -s .Xclients .xsession
Try and see if that helps.
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