Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
- Subject: Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:41:34 -0800
On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:58, Tommy Bollman wrote:
> Hello. I have tried wmii, but it says that another window manager is running:
> This is the lines in my $HOME/.xinitrc file:
Don't use ~/.xinitrc. Use ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
> exec quartz-wm --only-proxy &
Just delete this line because:
1) 'quartz-wm --only-proxy' is a no-op.
2) Don't 'exec' and '&' in the same line. It's bad form.
> exec /opt/local/bin/wmii
> This is something that may have worked when xrdb was used, but I really don't know how
> it should be done now.
This never worked for setting up xrdb because you're never running xrdb in .xinitrc. This is the main reason that I suggest not using ~/.xinitrc and instead setting up the WM in ~/.xinitrc.d. Do the following:
rm ~/.xinitrc
mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
echo "USERWM=opt/local/bin/wmii" > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
Then relaunch XQuartz.app
> The other thing I wonder about is in the console line from below; I surmise XFree86_VT is an env variable. and wonders what value
> it should be given.
>
> 08.03.11 19.50.25 /opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 Notice org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[73982]
No, that has nothing to do with XQuartz. It's an Xorg issue. I haven't looked into it further:
http://tinderbox.freedesktop.org/builds/2010-11-05-0017/logs/startup-test/
> If anybody knows about something that works, please let me know. I'm using the latest version of quartz-wm.
Do you mean XQuartz rather than quartz-wm here? You're obviously trying to use wmii instead of quartz-wm...
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