Gregor Best schrieb: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:35:02PM +0200, Torsten Andre wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> today I upgraded my Debian Squeeze system after a while and rebooted the >> system. Afterwards when logging in into slim awesome won't start. So I >> tried to start openbox and start awesome from the Debian Menu. If I do >> so nothing happens. Openbox is closed, but neither the awesome titlebar >> nor anything else shows up. I installed the awesome package from the >> repository. >> >> Does anyone have a clue why awesome won't do anything? To be honest I >> don't really know there to start looking. >> >> Thanks for your help! >> [...] >> > > Your best bet is looking at stderr, i.e. awesomes output on the starting > terminal. As you use slim to log in, you might be successful with > looking in ~/.xsession-errors, maybe it gets redirected there. If not, > I'd start openbox, install Xephyr and run awesome in Xephyr for testing: > > Xephyr :1 & > DISPLAY=:1.0 awesome > > That will shed some light on your problems. > > Thanks for your help! I just didn't know where to look. You are right. stderr is redirected to .xsession-errors where I found exactly the error described by Eric. I just added theme to link to theme.lua. Afterwards there was an error in the rc.lua. I removed it temporarily and used the default rc.lua with which it works again.
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