From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 09:06:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10253 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [205.181.251.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10205 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA22616; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:05:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:05:21 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" To: Nesi Unanaowo Cc: Bill Hamilton , nesi@net.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window manager problem. Message-ID: <19990127120521.A22560@emu.sourcee.com> References: <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com> <36AE4874.31B85169@finsco.com> <36AF40D9.92E5C787@net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <36AF40D9.92E5C787@net.com>; from Nesi Unanaowo on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:37:45AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:37:45AM -0800, Nesi Unanaowo wrote: > Bill Hamilton wrote: > > > vi the .xinitrc in you home directory and make sure it starts fvwm2. > > I will look at mine tonight. > > I am beginning to think that for some obscure reason the > fvwm2 is not started. I know for sure that my .xinitrc file > is being read because the xterms and the xclock referenced > are started when X is started. > The command that starts fvwm2 has the format: exec fvwm2 > but when I searched the system for the "exec" command it came > up blank. It seems as if there in no "exec" command on my system > which is rather strange. Might this be the problem? Probably not, exec is a shell built-in bash$ type exec exec is a shell builtin tcsh% which exec exec: shell built-in command. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > -Nesi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message