Continuing Saga: olwm and xdm

1997-08-16 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Hi Obi, Hi Everyone - Obi wrote: I'm using olvwm xdm with no problem ... I never set up any enviroment variable to make it work ... I guess you are doing something wrong with your .xsession file or .Xresources or something during the session startup. xdm is looking at .xsession while

please help: olvwm and openwin-menu

1997-08-15 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Hi Everyone, I just downloaded and installed olvwm. The good news is that it seems I have finally found a window manager that I like :-) The bad news is that I can't get it to read the menu definition file :-( The system-wide file exists as /etc/X11/olvwm/openwin-menu and my customization file

Update: olvwm and openwin-menu

1997-08-15 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Hi Tibor, Hi Everyone - Tibor Simko wrote: hi i like olvwm too. after the installation, the system-wide menu worked for me right out of the box, after the right mouse button click... so you must have done something bizzare during the installation ?! best wishes Mmmhhh, maybe I did

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-06 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
first of all, thanks to the people how tried to help me out with this rather odd problem. i followed the suggestions, but without success - as far as up/downgrading is concerned: my system is a rex/bo mix, and the problems seemed to start when i installed libc5 from hamm - i guess that my mixing

HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Need Your Help: I was downloading some packages from stable so that I could try to build a custom kernel. While I was downloading and installing (with dpkg), I got bored and wanted to play maelstrom - but mealstrom refused to start, same for xtetris. Then dpkg reported it was having problems

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Igor Grobman wrote: Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb yup, that's what i tried right after my original post - and i tried it again after reading your reply - with the same