From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 5:29:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3B237B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 05:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@pan.realtime.co.uk) Received: from madadmin.demon.co.uk ([193.237.103.251] helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15GgN4-0004dg-0V for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:30:38 +0100 Received: from [192.168.10.11] (helo=pan.realtime.co.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15GgHd-0001LG-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:25:01 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15GgLW-0000ZB-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:29:02 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with X and window manager Date: 01 Jul 2001 13:29:01 +0100 Message-ID: <86pubk4yuq.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 55 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I am having some weirdness with my window manager. I currently use icewm built from ports running under gnome on 2 machines. Until recently it behaved OK on both machines. On the first machine, I am having problems with my .xinitrc It looks as follows : /usr/bin/ssh-agent > /tmp/ssh-agent.out source /tmp/ssh-agent.out /usr/bin/ssh-add < /dev/null xmodmap -e "keycode 0x40 = Meta_L" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x73 = Alt_L" exec gnome-session This used to start ssh-agent, source the ssh-agent.out file and popup a window asking me for my ssh passphrase. Once this was done it would launch gnome-session. Like I say, this used to work. Yesterday I installed sawfish. I wasn't happy with a couple of things about it (mostly window placement and shortcuts to launch applications), so I decided to go back to icewm. Now starting X gives me the following : (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) source: not found Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. SESSION_MANAGER=local/pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2113 I've tried replacing the source line in my .xinitrc with . /tmp/ssh-agent,out but the same message persists. Now my ssh passphrase is not asked for and life is generally grody :) On the other machine, the xinitrc works ok, and the source function also works. The problem on this one is with switching desktops. I always use Ctrl-ALT-(left or right arrow) to flick between desktops. If after launching an application on a desktop, I flick to a different one, my keyboard shortcuts (including desktop moving) stops working. I have to launch an application using the mouse and than my keyboard works on that desktop. This problem does not happen on the first machine. I've tried AutoDetectGNOME at both 0 and 1 in the preferences file but the problem keeps happening. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix these problems ? I would truly appreciate it ! Thanks, -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message