You need to have something stay running, like xterm
(no &) at the end. Otherwise, everything gets backgrounded and it quits. On Thu, 23 May 2002, Marc Stergionis wrote: > I've used/installed fink/finkcommander on a few machines now and have > run into a roadblock on X Window Managers. > > On the various machines, I've found and/or created ~/.xinitrc to > change window managers. > > This has seemed to work for enabling me to change from WindowMaker to > Enlightenment to Icewm. > > However, I have fink-installed both Sawfish and Oroborus and can't > seem to activate those. > > When I edit .xinitrc to > > "exec sawfish" > > or > > "exec oroborus" > > Darwin self-quits (for Sawfish) > > or starts but there is no evidence of an X Window environment, except > for the X-shaped cursor (for Oroborus). > > Also, when in Icewm, the Window Managers popup men in the dock does > *not* list Sawfish or Oroborus, just the other three. Selecting one > of those three does toggle window managers successfully, though. > > What am I missing? > > -ms > -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSEE (6/86) + BSChem (3/95) + BAEnglish (8/95) + $2.50 = mocha latte _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
