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. ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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