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Re: [wmx] next newbie question...

Jason Smith - Thu May 03 18:10:04 2001


xfs is the font server, what you want to do is create a .xinitrc file in
your home directory that contains the full path to wmx

eg
/usr/local/bin/wmx


then type startx



On Thu, 3 May 2001 lcommons@att.net wrote:

> 
> Hi.  I've just installed wmx, (yes, it DID compile 
>  very easily :^) but am having a problem.  I'll start by 
>  saying that because of a problem upgrading from RH7 to 
>  RH7.1, I'm having problems with X, which are probably 
>  related to the question I have; yes, I plan to rerun the 
>  upgrade, unless I can get wmx working, so I thought I'd 
>  ask...
>  When I start wmx (by doing /wmx-6/wmx after doing xfs to 
>  start the X server), I get
>  <snip>
>  wmx: No dynamic configuration found
> 
>  wmx: Copyright...
>       blah blah blah
> 
>       Command menu taken from /root/.wmx.
>  wmx: can't open display: No such file or directory
>  </snip>
>  What file(s)/directory(s) is it looking for?  yes, 
>  /root/.wmx exists, though there are no files in it.
>  Or, is it just way to tough to tell with so little 
>  information? ;-(
> 
>  Thanks...
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Mr. Lauren Commons
> "Math will still be there when the snow melts." - 
> Calvin & Hobbes
> 			
> 





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