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On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:55:53 -0600 |
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Brad Camroux <bgcamroux@××××.ca> wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, so far |
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> without success. It's very difficult to find anything on Google et. |
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> al., too about getting things working. Today I managed to find the |
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> wmaker.inst program to install WindowMaker for the current user, but |
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> when I try to login and load WindowMaker, it just goes back to my kdm |
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> screen. I've been using Fluxbox in the meantime, and really don't |
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> want to just give up and go back to KDE. I want to use a nice, |
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> lightweight window manager. |
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> Does anyone have any ideas about configuring WindowMaker to work on |
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> Gentoo? I know lots of people have done it, but nobody seems to |
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> write a detailed account of how. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Brad |
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Brad, |
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You did use the windowmaker ebuild from portage right? I know gdm, |
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which I use, lists session managment options like Fluxbox and KDE based |
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on the presence of startup scripts in some folder somewhere |
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in /etc/X11. The ebuild should put them there, but I'm not sure, |
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especially for kdm, what that entails or whether it'll actually be done |
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in your case. You might be able to set up a custom script in |
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~/.xession to start up windowmaker, if you can figure out how to do so |
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from the command line, and then select the "custom" option if the |
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windowmaker ebuild doesn't support adding itself to the kdm menu. |
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Regards and good luck, |
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--Dan Farrell |
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