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Re: Window manager not starting on upgrade to potato



Finally I managed with a .xsession in the home directory

Suresh
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Suresh Kumar.R				Email: suresh@mycampus.com
Dept of Electronics & Communication
College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016
INDIA


On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Daniel Free wrote:

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> I had similar problems, the basic fix is to make a file in you home
> directory called 
> 
> .xinitrc
> 
> that contains the command (wmaker) that you want run on startup.
> 
> At 14:47 26/06/00 +051800, Suresh Kumar. R wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I upgraded my deb 2.1 to potato. There were no error messages during
> >the upgrade, but now after the upgrade no window managers are
> >starting.  
> >
> >I get just a blank xterm like stuff and if I run fvwm95, fvwm95
> >window manager starts as expected. But it doesnt come automatically
> >as we 
> >log in.     
> >
> >The file /etc/X11/window-managers contains the following line as the
> >first one
> >/usr/bin/X11/fvwm95
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >



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