Well, it could be that your previous window manager is crashing... What do you have in your .xinitrc?
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Stan Sanderson wrote: > Andrew- > > Gnome (start-up window) reports that Sawfish is starting; > Gnome-terminal tells me that only one window manager can run at a time > when I enter "sawfish". > > I'd have to assume Sawfish (my window manager?) is running. > > Thanks! > > Stan > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 08:44 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > Here's something that just occurred to me. I had a similar issue when > > I > > tried Apple X11, because my window manager never got started. Can you > > verify that your window manager is in fact running? > > -- > > Alexander K. Hansen > > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > > visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center > > Levitated Dipole Experiment > > 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Stan Sanderson wrote: > > > >> I have not found a solution to the problem as previously posted: > >> > >>> Package manager version: 0.11.2 > >>> Distribution version: 0.5.1.cvs > >>> Mac OS X version: 10.2.3 > >>> December 2002 Developer Tools > >>> gcc version: 3.1 > >>> make version: 3.79 > >>> > >>> Since the most recent round of updates, windows created by Gnome > >>> applications are anchored to the upper left-hand corner (0,0) of the > >>> screen. Furthermore, the ability to resize windows has disappeared. I > >>> realize that by using unstable versions of the software I'm always > >>> running a risk that things won't work, but I was wondering if someone > >>> might have a suggestion as to what might be causing the problem. > >> > >> I rebuilt (yesterday) Gnome related files without success. I hoped > >> today's Gnome updates might provide a solution, but the problem > >> remains. The X11 patch has been applied and those files have been > >> rebuilt also. I have been <rm -r .gnome> in between each effort. > >> > >> The fact that I seem to be the only one with the problem suggests I'm > >> missing something simple. Gnome was working fine before the batch of > >> updates prior to today's. Suggestions would be much appreciated. > >> > >> Stan > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > >> SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > >> http://www.vasoftware.com > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Fink-beginners mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > > http://www.vasoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-beginners mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
