Re: adventures with window managers

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Adam Hardy on 11/09/05 22:53, wrote:
> I just put a .xinitrc file in my $HOME with 'blackbox' as the window 
> manager, and I found a 'window manager' submenu.
>
> This allows me to change from blackbox to metacity or afterwm or several 
> others, but enlightenment, sawfish and uwm wont run, giving an error 
> like this:
>
> X-window does not contain the SHAPE library
>
> This isn't exactly what it said, since it was


Sorry, that was pretty dumb. Clicked Send by mistake. The exact message was:

UWM: Your X-Server doesn't support the SHAPES extension ..... terminating

I can't find any reference to SHAPES extension in synaptic. Where does 
it reside?