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Luis Medinas wrote: |
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>On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:29 +0000, DR GM SEDDON wrote: |
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>>Hi, |
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>>Previously I have always used windowmaker as my desktop, however this |
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>>does not start my applications on Gentoo. When I try and start an |
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>>app. nothing happens; no error. Also when I double click the desktop |
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>>conf icon it turns white and nothing happens but wmaker starts ok. So |
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>>rather than worry about fixing this I thought I'd try anew. |
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>try removing your ~/Gnustep directory. |
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>Next you can try to use a menu generator to help you find new apps |
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>emerge genmenu then run it. |
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>If nothing of this help you try to run a random app in a terminal then |
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>figure the error. |
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>>I like desktops that don't have a Ms look and when I minimise it |
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>>produces an icon not adding to a taskbar. Can anyone recommend a |
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>>good/best one. |
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>You can try xfce4( CDE look and feel), fluxbox or another *box wm, ion |
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>is a great WM(a wonderful concept imo) or enlightenment. All these wm |
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>are available in portage. |
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>A good resource to wm is http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ and of course |
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>http://forums.gentoo.org. |
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When I try to emerge a wm I dget a problem of conflcting files, |
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--pretend shows these. How do I remove them with portage? |
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