Window managers freeze xorg

kaon · 09-18-2004, 09:52 AM

Hi all,

I am using slack 10.0 with XFCE now. It works perfect, nothing goes wrong. I would try other window managers as well, so I installed blackbox,wmaker,fvwm2 and icewm yesterday.

I use xwmconfig to choose windows manager, nothing is changed (including settings) other than that, but Blackbox and wmaker stopped Xorg to continue its execution. (I have waited for 3-4 mins for each WM). The rest run perfectly on my box.
All packages are downloaded from current directory of slackware.com.

Any idea on that?

Thanks.

Cedrik · 09-18-2004, 09:59 AM

Are you trying to lauch them from a X session ?

When you boot, do you use to type 'startx' to enter X session or you use a X login session as kdm,gdm,xdm ?

kaon · 09-18-2004, 11:00 AM

Oh I forgot to tell.

my box is in runlevel 3 and I have xdm ONLY.

1) I installed the WM aforementioned using another tty (tty2) login as root
2) quit X if it is running
3) Run xwmconfig to change WM
4) Save settings and startx

Cedrik · 09-18-2004, 12:04 PM

Any error in log ? What are the last lines when you startx ?

kaon · 09-18-2004, 09:29 PM

For wmaker,
/usr/bin/wmaker warning:could not open IM

For Blackbox,
Bscreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x21, depth24
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or shutdown)

kaon · 02-09-2005, 08:45 AM

** BUMP **

Anyone has some idea on the error?

Thanks.