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Re: Newbie needs some guidance.


  • Subject: Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
  • From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:40:35 +0100

Hello and thanks.

I really did what you said, and I got no errors from wmii,
-I got a black scrren with windows on.
In order to get like it was, I have trashed X11.App, and rm -fR opt/X11 and reinstalled
XQuartz.

I guess I have screwed up a defaults value somewhere which leaves
me with windows in the  X11 root window.

That is the only way the for instance xclock window are shown, are in the root window when the rest is black.

I'll go back and browse the archives, but if anybody knows what I have been doing, or what I should do, then please let me know!

Den 8. mars 2011 kl. 23.41 skrev Jeremy Huddleston:

>
> 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...
>
>
>

Best regards



Tommy Bollman
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 >Re: Newbie needs some guidance. (From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie needs some guidance. (From: Allen Bennett <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie needs some guidance. (From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Newbie needs some guidance. (From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>)

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