xOn Sat, 07 Apr 2007, Brad Camroux wrote: > Greetings,
> I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, > so far without success. It's very difficult to find anything > on Google et. al., too about getting things working. Today I > managed to find the wmaker.inst program to install WindowMaker > for the current user, but when I try to login and load > WindowMaker, it just goes back to my kdm screen. I've been > using Fluxbox in the meantime, and really don't want to just > give up and go back to KDE. I want to use a nice, lightweight > window manager. > Does anyone have any ideas about configuring WindowMaker to > work on Gentoo? I know lots of people have done it, but nobody > seems to write a detailed account of how. > Thanks, > > Brad Brad I just edited the .xinitrc file in my home directory, and use xdm. cat .xinitrc #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/xbindkeys & #/usr/bin/xterm & /usr/bin/wmaker It seems that your wmaker is crashing when you start it (goes back to the login screen). Do you use wmaker from portage? There are two important patches incuded which dont come with wmaker from the original source. Urs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
