Re: ratpoison again: "You lose"/ "There can be only ONE"
Re: ratpoison again: "You lose"/ "There can be only ONE"
- Subject: Re: ratpoison again: "You lose"/ "There can be only ONE"
- From: "Tom Scogland" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:10:29 -0500
You have to have X11 start it instead of quartz-wm, a .xinitrc or
.xsession should do the trick. You should know though, that ratpoison
is a fullscreen wm, and will probably react poorly to X11.app
anyway...
-Tom
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Ben Aurel <email@hidden> wrote:
> hi
> I'm not sure if the following problem is caused by the application
> (ratpoison) or by my X11 configuration.
>
> Since I received an overwelming amount of helpful and competent answers to
> my previous post ("configure error:"Can'}t find X11 headers and libs") I'd
> like to ask you again for some help.
>
> thanks to the tip of martin costabel I was able to build the latest
> ratpoison release:
>
> --------------
> ~ $ ./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib
> ~ $ make && sudo make install
>
> ~ $ ratpoison -version
> ratpoison 1.4.3 (built Jul 8 2008 14:46:45)
> Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Shawn Betts
> ----------------
>
> the problem is that I can't start ratpoison. Here is what I tried:
>
> 1. starting in xterm in a X11 session
>
> bash-3.2$ ratpoison
> ratpoison: There can be only ONE.
>
>
> 2. try to start it directly via Terminal.app
>
> $ ratpoison
> ratpoison:main.c:533: error: ratpoison: Cannot load font
> -*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-*-*.
> ratpoison:main.c:537: error: ratpoison: Cannot load backup font * . You
> lose.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance...
> Ben
>
>
>
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