From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 12 10:20:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from legend.idworld.net (legend.idworld.net [209.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A5314CD0 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 10:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john01@idworld.net) Received: from idworld.net (dnas-04-23.sat.idworld.net [209.142.68.93]) by legend.idworld.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16888 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:20:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3762501D.675A84E1@idworld.net> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:18:38 +0000 From: John Garcia Organization: City Public Service X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Window manager problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently installed 3.2-RELEASE as an upgrade to 2.2.8, Everything seems to have gone fine with the exception that I cannot use the new, or for that matter any, window manager( Afterstep, Olvwm, etc.) The only one that works is twm. When I attempt to use any other I get the xserver to start with a few xterm's but no manager. I have a working .xinitrc file, so I know that is not the problem. What else could be wrong? -John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message