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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:40:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        peter <peter@worldinternet.net>
Subject:   Re: Afterstep1.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980115093824.28814A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980115075124.55487@emu.sourcee.com>

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U dont actually need exec afterstep just put 
#!/bin/sh

afterstep 

in your ~/.xinitrc file and it would be fine. But be sure it is in your
path. 
Also u can try to put it in your .Xclient file? I can't be sure about that
though. 

Wei Weng wweng@stevens-tech.edu
http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~wweng
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Norman C Rice wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 09:53:11AM +0000, peter wrote:
> > On 2.2.5 I have installed AfterStep 1.0 from the CD it has put it in the
> > following dir: /usr/ports/x11/afterstep/. So I go to that directory and
> > then goto : work/AfterStep-1.0/afterstep in that directory I do :
> > ./afterstep and I get the following message : "AfterStep: another WH is
> > running". 
> > 
> > WHAT DO I DO NOW ????
> 
> I believe you're experiencing the error because you are already 
> running a window manager (xdm, fvwm, etc.) when you try to invoke 
> afterstep.
> 
> Try stopping your X window manager, comment your existing window
> manager in ~/.xinitrc, add `exec afterstep' to your ~/.xinitrc,
> and run startx to start up afterstep.
> 
> # my old window manager
> # exec fvwm95
> 
> # start afterstep
> exec afterstep
> 
> Make sure that the afterstep executable is in your path.
> Did you perform a `make install' as root?
> -- 
> Regards,
> Norman C. Rice, Jr.
> 




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