On Sunday, November 11, 2001, at 06:26 AM, Doug Dunston wrote:
> I have successfully installed XDarwin's rootless version on top of
> Xfree86 on my Mac running OS X v. 10.1, and I have also installed Fink
> to help me with future installations. I would like to try out fvwm,
> and I think (!) I have installed it.
>
> When I type fvwm2 at a prompt in a window of XDarwin, I get:
>
> [FVWM][CatchRedirectError]: <<ERROR>> another WM is running
>
> I suppose this means 1) I did install fvwm, and 2) I need to find a way
> to have it run instead of the default window manager.
Probably you are correct on both counts. If you are able to resize
windows in X, then you are already running with a window manager. Like
every other version of xfree86 I've seen, XDarwin ships with twm as the
default. Likely that is what you're looking at (Hint: it's minimal,
ugly, somewhat counter-intuitive and you're window borders are probably
green).
> How should I proceed? Was it a waste of time to install XDarwin (is it
> the window manager I'm NOT going to use?
No, it sounds to me like you're doing OK so far, but you may need to be
aware of some differences from the kind of set-up to which you may be
accustomed. Remember that X(Darwin) is a display server, capable of
supporting a large number of different client window managers (but,
sensibly, only one at a time!). On Windows and MacOS, the functions of
window-server and window manager are usually combined, hence perhaps
some confusion.
To switch the default WM, you need to edit the file:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to reflect your preference (at least, that's
where it lives on my 10.0.4 box). Try changing "twm" to "fvwm2", save
the file, then restart X. Get back to us with any problems.
-R.
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Received on Tue Nov 13 2001 - 00:31:45 GMT