I don't really want to start a flame war; but here is what i found on my box: (see step 1 below) --- "Mr. David Bersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Since this fellow who asked for advice on how to > go directly into different window managers > has objections to the method, it may of > confused some of the newbies on this list on how to > go about it. A careful study of his > objections shows a person whose ego cannot take someone > having a real solution. In fact, his > confused objections leap out at you > with his mailings and you > must see such reactions are mere manifestations of the uncontrolled > ego when encountering > an equation that is beyond the scope of his limited intelligence. > > I will go through the method step by step for newbies to assure > myself that he hasn't confused > everyone with his silly objections. I am giving a superior method and > perhaps the only real method of logging in directly to your window > sessions. None of this person's complaints about > it's method hold any water at all. Here's how to do it. Now this > young fellow wants to write a > bug report to the person who created the manual for the mehod. I'm > certainly willing to abide by > the fiction that it will create bugs. Such remarks are unworthy of > any linux users time. > > This is how to do it step by step and I'll start right from the > beginning. > > 1. To find the start up script you use the "type" command. To wit: > On your command line you do this: > type wmaker. > This will give you your startup script which is: /usr/bin/wmaker This didn't give me a startup script, it gave me a binary:
rbash-2.05b$ type icewm icewm is /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm rbash-2.05b$ file /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped > You now have the startup script path to give permissions. No I don't; Step 1 failed... why bother continuing! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
