On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:55:53 -0600
Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, so far
> without success. It's very difficult to find anything on Google et.
> al., too about getting things working. Today I managed to find the
> wmaker.inst program to install WindowMaker for the current user, but
> when I try to login and load WindowMaker, it just goes back to my kdm
> screen. I've been using Fluxbox in the meantime, and really don't
> want to just give up and go back to KDE. I want to use a nice,
> lightweight window manager.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about configuring WindowMaker to work on
> Gentoo? I know lots of people have done it, but nobody seems to
> write a detailed account of how.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
Brad,
You did use the windowmaker ebuild from portage right? I know gdm,
which I use, lists session managment options like Fluxbox and KDE based
on the presence of startup scripts in some folder somewhere
in /etc/X11. The ebuild should put them there, but I'm not sure,
especially for kdm, what that entails or whether it'll actually be done
in your case. You might be able to set up a custom script in
~/.xession to start up windowmaker, if you can figure out how to do so
from the command line, and then select the "custom" option if the
windowmaker ebuild doesn't support adding itself to the kdm menu.
Regards and good luck,
--Dan Farrell
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