Problem finally resolved. I think what went wrong was that I did an
apt-get remove on wmaker soon after upgrade, and emptied some of the
directories *by hand* when I saw that they weren't going away (because
not empty).
In retrospect this was a boneheaded thing to do, but it seemed like a good
id
Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> OK,
>
> Here is what I get when I try to start WindowMaker into a vanilla X
> display:
>
> install: cannot stat `/etc/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker': No such file or
> directory
>
> And indeed, there is no such file there. Which says to me that something
> is wrong with
OK,
Here is what I get when I try to start WindowMaker into a vanilla X
display:
install: cannot stat `/etc/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker': No such file or
directory
And indeed, there is no such file there. Which says to me that something
is wrong with the wmaker installation; however, I have d
Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Excuse my continuing X density. :-) When I run plain X from root, I get a
> grey screen and X cursor -- which moves fine -- but nothing else. Either
> a) I just don't know how to pop up a console window from this bare
> display, or b) I should be getting more than
> What do you get when you run :
>
> $ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> --
>
> ~~~
Here is what I get:
There are 8 programs which provide `x-window-manager'.
SelectionCommand
Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Excuse my continuing X density. :-) When I run plain X from root, I get a
> grey screen and X cursor -- which moves fine -- but nothing else. Either
> a) I just don't know how to pop up a console window from this bare
> display, or b) I should be getting more than
Hi,
Excuse my continuing X density. :-) When I run plain X from root, I get a
grey screen and X cursor -- which moves fine -- but nothing else. Either
a) I just don't know how to pop up a console window from this bare
display, or b) I should be getting more than this, and this is a clue to
whatev
Glenn Becker wrote:
...
> Basically, when I try to switch to any of the 'problematic' WMs, X just
> fails. Goes away. And I'm back at a console prompt. The only line in
it looks like the WM dies (does not run or something similar). X often
hangs on window manger (it's the last program, not run i
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