From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 12 12:51:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8784414E3D for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA20099; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:49:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:49:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: John Garcia Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window manager problems In-Reply-To: <3762501D.675A84E1@idworld.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, John Garcia wrote: > I recently installed 3.2-RELEASE as an upgrade to 2.2.8, Everything > seems to have gone fine with the exception that I cannot use the new, > or for that matter any, window manager( Afterstep, Olvwm, etc.) The > only one that works is twm. When I attempt to use any other I get the > xserver to start with a few xterm's but no manager. > I have a working .xinitrc file, so I know that is not the problem. > What else could be wrong? Lots - we need more info than this. Did you upgrade your ports when you upgraded the system? If not, did you keep the a.out compatibility libs? Is the working .xinitrc _your_ xinitrc or the system default? Look in .xinitrc-errors in your directory (I think there's a file like this - there is for using xdm which I use) and tell us what, if anything, it says. Post your .xinitrc as a reference for us. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message