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RE: IceWM?
- From: "Sean LeBlanc" <sean at nutros dot com>
- To: "'Suhaib Siddiqi'" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:31:15 -0700
- Subject: RE: IceWM?
- Reply-to: <sean at nutros dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib Siddiqi
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: IceWM?
>
>
>
>
> > > maybe your IceWM failed to start. Try starting it from
> > xterm window.
> > > It should show you errors if it is crashing.
> >
> > I see icewm running in the Windows task manager -
>
> you can kill it in Taskmanager
It doesn't appear to do anything to kill the old icewm. It dies,
but even though I ran a new one from xterm, nothing changes.
BTW, the background is green - not the normal black and white background
X has when there is no wm.
> > could it
> > still have crashed in that case? Also, do you mean to run
> > icewm from the odd-looked xterm inside of XFree86?
>
> yes! without a window manager, xterm would be odd-looking.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
> >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:sean@nutros.com]
> > > > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:15 AM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > > Subject: IceWM?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Earlier I asked about window managers - I'm trying to get IceWM
> > > > working for the time being. I downloaded binary
> edition, changed
> > > > startxwin.sh according to directions, and run startxwin.sh. The
> > > > server comes up with a green background, and an xterm...but the
> > > > xterm doesn't look right (no edges or title bar), and there is
> > > > nothing else on the screen. Any ideas on what I'm doing
> > wrong here?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Sean
> > > >
> > >
> >
>