Re: Still Happening
Re: Still Happening
- Subject: Re: Still Happening
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:54:44 +0100
robert delius royar wrote:
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 (20:25 -0700 UTC) Michael Reilly wrote:
Please take a look at my two previous posts, fix your xinitrc and let
us know how it goes,
michael
David Robinson wrote:
Hi
[...]
# start the window manager
exec wmaker &
exec xterm
I doubt xterm or wmaker are in your path. Have you tried
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm &
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker
instead? Or you could modify your path.
/usr/X11R6/bin will be automatically in the PATH when ~/.xinitrc is run.
OTOH, /sw/bin/wmaker will not be in the PATH by default. David's trying
to put it there started this whole mess. He misunderstood Fink's
instructions or took too many liberties with them.
After all the other instructions that David has now received on the
several threads he started about this, I hesitate to give another one,
but here goes anyway: All those instructions about copying
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your home directory and then modifying it are
bogus. This whole "if [ -f "$userresources" ];" etc crap that file
mostly consist of is completely useless. Only two lines of that script
are actually doing something.
The best would be to make a simple file ~/.xinitrc consisting of only 3
lines
source /sw/bin/init.sh
xterm&
exec wmaker
Even better, in David's situation, would have been to RTFM, "fink
describe windowmaker" and follow the advice given there, namely to run
the wmaker.inst script. This will create a suitable ~/.xinitrc file
automatically. It will also do some other configuring tasks necessary
before starting windowmaker.
--
Martin
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