I fixed it! Apparently emacs19 was causing problems with menu. I discovered this by using update-menus at which point I got an error about emacs19. So I reinstalled hamm again without any emacs and WindowMaker has the expected menus.
Now I have a GUI I can comfortably move around in and learn about Linux. Thanks again. Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Cristov Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 12:15 AM To: 'Marcelo E. Magallon'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Marcelo E. Magallon'; 'Debian-User List (E-mail)' Subject: RE: No menu in wmaker Marcello I tried the chmod command and got error stating that the file or directory did not exist. The only file in /etc/menu is README. The .xsession-error says: WindowMaker warning: defaults DB: couldn't find menu file "menu.hook". As far as modifying the kernel, I don't know how. The problems I'm having are after freshly reinstalling only the base packages. I guess I shouldn't really say that X isn't working. It is. But without a window manager I'm quasi lost within it and I don't know how to switch window managers from within X (one reason I like using WM). -----Original Message----- From: Marcelo E. Magallon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Marcelo E. Magallon'; Debian-User List (E-mail) Subject: Re: No menu in wmaker On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 09:37:13PM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote: > Perhaps there is something wrong with the packages on my Cheapbytes CD or > something about my new system (different hardware than my previous > successful installation) that Debain doesn't like. I can't figure it out > and I've been working on it for a month now. [as root] $ chmod +x /etc/menu/wm* $ update-menus [as user] $ echo \"menu.hook\" > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu $ rm ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook That should do it. If it doesn't, look in /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook, it should be populated with several menu entries. If it's not, there's something really wrong, and I don't have enough information to make an educated guess. > I've done a complete reinstall several times now and am having several > oddities that I did not experience when I simply downloaded the packages > (which I have since erased to free up hard drive space). My parallel zip > drive is suddenly sda1 instead of sda4. I also get a "bread" error when > mounting a logical drive (hda6) in my extended partition. If I can get X > working Did you change the kernel? Sounds like it. Also, I still don't understand what's the problem with X. If you are able to check that the menu is not correctly generated, then X is fine (because wmaker is working, if X were not ok, you wouldn't even see wmaker). Take a look in ~/.xsession-errors, some sort of clue should be hiding in there. Marcelo
