Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
- Subject: Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:59:32 +0100
ArggghhhHHH :-)
I found the full screen mode under preferences ....
I'll read up on X11 until later. It is interesting. The objective is to use it to
control remote computers with.
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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