redhat 9 window manager

kakarak · 09-10-2003, 09:21 PM

this is from a previous post.. and its exactly where im at (the grey screen with a mouse cursor).. what i want to know is.. where and how do i set up the window manager.. thanks

kak

"If that works, you can copy XF86Config.new to your /etc/X11/XF86Config,
edit it for more specific options, and go from there.
If it works, it will just bring up a grey screen with a mouse cursor in the
shape of an X, there will be no fancy anything, this is just the X server,
the window manager is setup later."

darthtux · 09-10-2003, 11:26 PM

There are several different window mangers. A good place to get info is
http://www.plig.org/xwinman

Create a .xinitrc file in your home directory if it doesn't exist. If you want to use kde or gnome put one of these lines as the last line in the file

startkde
exec gnome-session

Thetargos · 09-11-2003, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kakarak
this is from a previous post.. and its exactly where im at (the grey screen with a mouse cursor).. what i want to know is.. where and how do i set up the window manager.. thanks

kak

"If that works, you can copy XF86Config.new to your /etc/X11/XF86Config,
edit it for more specific options, and go from there.
If it works, it will just bring up a grey screen with a mouse cursor in the
shape of an X, there will be no fancy anything, this is just the X server,
the window manager is setup later."

Now just type startx and you should be presented with the GNOME desktop environment

w00t!