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Re: no window manager works?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Thu Nov 5 21:21:04 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 02:18:31 -0000
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Well let me see.. you're are in no position to question my experience..
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: no window manager works?!?
>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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