Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 14:47:16 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Fred Adorno <fadorn19@idt.liberty.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fvwm and x-windows Message-ID: <199607011847.OAA16496@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 1996 10:53:19 PDT." <31D8108F.277F@idt.liberty.com>
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Fred Adorno uttered with conviction:
> When I attempt to exec fvwm from the prompt and error message states
> "Unable to open display";
This means that you did not specify a display. You can do this by
either setting the DISPLAY variable:
csh > setenv DISPLAY {hostname}:0.0
sh > DISPLAY={hostname}:0.0 ; export DISPLAY
( replace {hostname} with your display. )
> when attempted while in xterm it states that there's another window
> manager open.
Are you running another window manager?? like twm for instance.. If
you can click on the root window ( area without any other windows )
and get a menu then you are probably running another window manager.
You might make yourself an .xinitrc that sets the window manager.
somthing like:
#!/bin/csh
setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0.0
xsetroot -solid steelblue &
fvwm &
xterm -sb -sl 1000 -title 'Login'
Remeber that the _last_ executable in the script must be started in
the forground. When you that program ( in this case xterm ) you will
exit from x-windows. So you could put the window manager last if you
like, however using an xterm like the above allows one to switch
window managers on the fly.
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