On Tue, 9 May 2006, Cédric Bouttes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use startx to have an X session.
> Then when i try to start twm instead of xterm i have
> the following errors :
> $ twm: another window manager is already running on screen 0?
> twm: unable to find any unmanaged screens
>
> What can i do ?
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Cédric Bouttes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use startx to have an X session.
> Then when i try to start wmaker i have
> the following errors :
> wmaker fatal error: it seems that there is already a window manager running
>
> waiting for X server to shut down winClipboardProc -
> Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing.
> winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded
In both cases, by default XWin starts in multiwindow mode, which basically
means that XWin has a built-in window manager that wraps the Windows
default window manager.
If you are content with the multiwindow mode, just don't start any window
manager. If you would rather use twm or windowmaker, remove the
-multiwindow parameter from the XWin invocation (and you might wish to add
-rootless if you want the windows to be listed among the regular Windows
ones).
HTH,
Igor
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