On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good way forward with X11 window managers using > X11R& (I'm in the processw of moving to amd64 7.0). For many years I > have used IceWM, but the pkgsrc binary fails with symbol _XGetRequest > not found in libXext.so.7. If I compile from source I get a segfault. > > The pkgsrc mwm binary fails in the same way. But twm works (does > anyone actually use twm these days?).o
Sounds like you may have a mix of X11 packages built using different dependencies (maybe built on different systems). It also sounds like you may have multiple X11 libraries installed that are incompatible.