On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:04, Lukas Fried wrote: > After using KDE for a while, I'm getting a bit tired of its bloatedness > and am ready to move on to a more minimalistic WM. I never really liked > GNOME and my top two choices for a new WM are Fluxbox and sawfish. Both > of them are installed on my system but I can't seem to get them to run. > > Typing "sawfish" from the console returns the following: > > sawfish: Can't open display: > > Typing "fluxbox" yields: > > BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed > Fluxbox: Unknown error > > Even "twm" doesn't work: > > twm: unable to open display "" > > Could someone please help me fix this problem? I would like to be able > to start sawfish and/or fluxbox from the console as well as have them > listed in the GDM Sessions dialogue box.
You need to tell X that you want to use a different WM. The window manager does not start X but rather, X starts the window manager. You can try switchdesk but I don't think that it knows about sawfish. You can place a call to sawfish in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients depending on your setup. HTH Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
