From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 06:40:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25586 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 06:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (root@attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25530 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 06:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wweng@attila.stevens-tech.edu) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by attila.stevens-tech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3.1) with SMTP id JAA04100; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:40:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:40:05 -0500 (EST) From: Wei Weng To: freebsd-questions cc: peter Subject: Re: Afterstep1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980115075124.55487@emu.sourcee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk U dont actually need exec afterstep just put #!/bin/sh afterstep in your ~/.xinitrc file and it would be fine. But be sure it is in your path. Also u can try to put it in your .Xclient file? I can't be sure about that though. Wei Weng wweng@stevens-tech.edu http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~wweng -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows ... buried in the flow of time ... in the great name, I pledge myself to darkness, all the fools who stand in our way shall be destroyed ... by the power you and I possess, DRAGON SLAVE! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- main(a,b){a="main(a,b){a=%c%s%c;b='%c';printf(a,b,a,b,b);}";b='"';printf (a,b,a,b,b);}main(a){a="main(a){a=%c%s%c;printf(a,34,a,34);}";printf(a,34,a, 34);}main(a){printf(a="main(a){printf(a=%c%s%c,34,a,34);}",34,a,34);} --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 09:53:11AM +0000, peter wrote: > > On 2.2.5 I have installed AfterStep 1.0 from the CD it has put it in the > > following dir: /usr/ports/x11/afterstep/. So I go to that directory and > > then goto : work/AfterStep-1.0/afterstep in that directory I do : > > ./afterstep and I get the following message : "AfterStep: another WH is > > running".  > > > > WHAT DO I DO NOW ???? > > I believe you're experiencing the error because you are already > running a window manager (xdm, fvwm, etc.) when you try to invoke > afterstep. > > Try stopping your X window manager, comment your existing window > manager in ~/.xinitrc, add `exec afterstep' to your ~/.xinitrc, > and run startx to start up afterstep. > > # my old window manager > # exec fvwm95 > > # start afterstep > exec afterstep > > Make sure that the afterstep executable is in your path. > Did you perform a `make install' as root? > -- > Regards, > Norman C. Rice, Jr. >