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Re: Problem about window managers
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:16:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problem about window managers
- References: <000201c58e9d$c9828130$a62fb5d5@keloasc60pobkb>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Alireza Ghasemi wrote:
> I compiled Fvwm95 and I tried to run it using " startx -e fvwm95.exe " but
> it failed and said that " there is Another window manager running " . What's
> wrong and what should I do to solve it ?
You're probably using -multiwindow mode when starting XWin.exe which
means that Windows itself is the window manager and you cannot use an
external WM. You will need to start with -fullscreen or -rootless (or
maybe -mwextwm ??)
Brian
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