On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Brian M. Sutin wrote: > A few year I ran some sort of update in fink commander that I really > should not have. I think I compiled something. Before, the window > system was gnome/kde like, and rather intuitive. Now it is more like > Sunwindows or the old Solaris. A click is required to place a new > window, three windows are automatically created when X starts, and > resizing a window is a completely non-intuitive multi-stage process. > We can't figure out how to delete a window at all. It is really > quite horrible. How do I reverse whatever I did? > > Brian > > -- > Brian M. Sutin, Ph.D. Space System Engineering and Optical Design > Skewray Research/316 W Green St/Claremont CA 91711 USA/(909) 621-3122 >
That's the ancient twm window manager. It comes with X11 so it's nothing you installed. It sounds to me as though you were relying on the system-level xinitrc and it got supplanted somehow. The only package that I know of that can do this is the xinitrc package, which will move your old xinitrc out of the way. You can see if this got installed on an update via "fink list -i xinitrc". If that's installed, your old xinitrc will have been backed up. Check in /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit on 10.5, or /etc/X11/xinit on 10.4. I'm a bit surprised that it's using twm, but since I don't know anything about what OS version you're running, and if on 10.4 or earlier, what X11 distribution you're using, nor which window manager you were running before. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
