Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:57:03 -0800 (PST) From: Riccardo veraldi <riccardo@calweb.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: window manager olvwm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961210005634.21067A-100000@web1.calweb.com>
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Hi, I have quite a curious thing to bring to your attention people. Well first of all thanks for your help, this is not the first time I mail here :) Well I have quite a strange behaviour of my olvwm window manager. Is this a bug I guess ???? Well if I run olvwm as window manager and then I switch to text mode on virtual console with CONTROL+ALT+F1 or CONTROL+ALT+F2 then I come back to the X Window with CONTROL+ALT+F4...well if now I log out from the X server IT happens that when I am back to text mode no characters are displayed anymore on the console on the terminal if I type something on my keyboard, and also they not only are not displayed, but commands are not executed, seems like the keyboard is cutted off, but I Still can reboot with CONTROL+ALT+CANC. Well the thing is that this happens only if I use the olvwm and if I use the fvwm this does not happen...better saying this happen after exiting from X windows using the olvwm and first before exiting it switching to text mode. IF I do not switch with CONTROL+ALT+F1 etc, and I use X windows normally without switching to text, everything is ok when I exit the X server. I have a normal PC 486Dx33 Intel CPU, ISA Bus, 2 IDE disks, ET4000 video card, I mean normal hardware, but only 8 Mb RAM. _________________________________________________________________________ then here is some help I ask you :) I have installed the Open Look Window Manager olvwm as I told before. The thing is that I am unable to do things like PROPERTIES and SAVE_WORKSPACE 'cos the system tells me that I don't have the programs props and owplaces, where I can find these programs for FreeBSD? I have installed the XFree86 taking the binaries from ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/OS/4.3bsd/FreeBSD/XFree86 and uncompressing it and making everything like linking to X the SVGA server etc., I did the same way the documentation told me to extract and install the binaries, I mean I followed all the instructions I found on the documentation file. Then after installing the X server I installed the olvwm window manager getting it from packages distribution (ftp.fi.freebsd.org/pub/OS/4.3bsd/FreeBSD/ 2.1.6-RELEASE/packages) and I used the menue program /stand/sysinstall/ , and the installation has gone fine. OF course I installed all the xview libraries and clients, the packages xview-clients-3.2.1.tgz xview-config-3.2.1.tgz xview-lib-3.2.1.tgz THe only thing is that I can't configure to save the workspace or look at the properties 'cos seems like that in the binary distribution there aren't these 2 programs props and owplaces, so what I have to do? where I can find them? I would like to make the 2 things (props, owplaces) work on my olvwm. In the man pages I found out also informations about the script openwin, but I have not find it after installation so I did it myself as well as I didn't find iconedit even if there is a reference to it in the xview man page. Seems like the binary distribution is incomplete. now an other question. OFTEN when I run a X client I have this message: ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0: minor version 0 older than expected 1, using it anyway. how come this happens?? I have the new release binaries 1.2.6-RELEASE and libs too I found in the same distribution, so why I have this warning message? well there is a thing to say. The XFree86 binaries I found were common to 2.1.* distributions and not specific for 2.1.6 release, might this one to be the reason of the warning message ?? Anyway I think FreeBsd to be better than Linux, I like more FreeBSD. A last question... I have applications such as xsysinfo xsysstats , but if I run the xman I can't find them there also with search option, while they are in normal man pages from vt100 terminal, how come? How come I Can't find the manual pages with the xman program? I hope you can help me. thanks a lot!! Riccardo from Italy.
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