On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:52:58AM -0700, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > --- Matthias Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The simple solution was: I had no window manager installed 8-() > > Further I had to disable gpm mouse service otherwise I couldn't use > > the mouse under X. > > Same thing happened to me last week when I installed Potato/Woody on a > TP 755 Cs. I'm sure there must be good reasons, but it's strange that > no window manager is required with the core X packages.
Not really. You could run a box as an X terminal, and run the window manager on a remote machine, especially if you use something like XDMCP. (X -indirect hostname). Of course, I don't think having lwm installed (62kB installed size) would kill anyone :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
