On Thursday 17 March 2011 15:07:11 Session13 wrote: > Hi, > > I've used Sawfish successuflly with Gnome but now I want to use it > without Gnome or any other Desktop Environment. > > Right now I have clean Debian stable netinst installation with sawfish > package installed. When running `sawfish' as root there is a `can't open > display' error. What should I do to run Sawfish? > > Thanks for your help
Install a display-manager like GDM or KDM and select 'Sawfish' as session-type. You can't start Sawfish from the terminal, as it -of course- requires a running XServer. Also you shouldn't do that as root, as you would be logged in as root then. When using Sawfish stand-alone you might check things like the LXDE Session- Manager (so that you have autostart capatibilities) or SawfishPager. Chris
