Hi there,
It sounds like you are missing some libraries.
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> So I decided to manually launch those applications and here's what I
> get:
> - with 'twm': Unable to open display
This is a window manager, it wont run without an X server running first.
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> - with 'fvwm': libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: no
> such file or directory
Looks like you have fvwm installed, but not libXpm, a shared library that
fvwm needs to run.
> Then I tried to execute 'display', and I get :
> error in loading shared libraries
> libMagick.so.3.9: cannot open shared object file: no such
> file or directory
'display' is a utility used to display an image - looks like you're also
missing some libraries for this.
What your xinitrc script did was launch the X server (which worked), and
then tested to see if you had either fvwm or twm as a window manager
installed. It found fvwm, and loaded it - but as you demonstrated it was
missing some libraries - it failed and quit.
You should either install libXpm, or make sure your library paths are
correct. Or, edit your xinitrc and make it test for twm first and use that,
its not a very nice window manager, but it doesn't need libXpm.
--
Andre' Miller
