window maker restart

cb951303 · 12-17-2005, 03:03 AM

how can I restart window maker from console or is there a command in X package that refreshes the screen?

thanks

Okie · 12-17-2005, 08:04 PM

restart WindowMaker? umm, why? it is frequently crashing on you?

are you familier with /etc/inittab ???

Slackware defaults to init 3 which is CLI i usually leave it at 3 and just add init 4 as a parameter at boot time, i could edit inittab to default to 4 but i prefer to leave it at 3 so if X develops a problem i dont have it constantly respawning in an endless loop...

if you want to make WindowMaker the default desktop run xwmconfig and set WindowMaker as default...

cb951303 · 12-18-2005, 04:54 AM

thanks but this isn't the problem. To be more specific, I use "xcompmgr -c" to enable dropshadows. It's in .xinitrc so every time I startx I have dropshadows. But when I run gkrellm with dropshadows half of the gkrellm's window is missing until I refresh the screen or hit the "Restart WindowMaker" buton from menu. So I wanna place a "refresh screen command" to .xinitrc....

thanks