On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:14:59PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
There's some confusion at hand here....
> OK
> Installed from frozen.
> Installed wmaker but when I try to startx, just the standard xinit screen
> appears.
xinit is a console program which starts the X Server, and optionally one
or more X clients. Usually it's executed indirectly by 'startx'.
What you're seeing is most likely either:
- A screen with a black and white herringbone pattern (size varies with
screen resolution), a large "X" cursor, and possibly an xterm window.
This is just the X server without clients.
- A graphical login screen from one or more of the X display managers,
with an input box for user id and/or password.
...so which is it?
You can launch specified clients using the syntax:
startx <client> -- <server options>
...so for WindowMaker:
startx wmaker -- :0 -bpp 32
If you want a deep understanding of what xinit does, read the source.
It's a bash shell script. The first few lines tell you where it's
looking for configuration options. The rest is left as an exercise for
the reader.
> I guess there is some config programm I should run, I have tried
> register-window-manager, but no results, when I run x-window-manager,
> wmaker starts.
Hmm... There's probably something. I find that 'vi' is a pretty
powerful configuration tool....
> Is there something I'm missing here, and shouldnt these thing be
> configured correctly when installing.
> /nisse
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