Hendrik Boom on 20/07/05 17:12, wrote:
That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as the default window
manager, and x-windows is still taking 5 times as long to start up.
What part of the config should I be looking at here?
I've just upgraded my woody to a sarge, and can't get X to do anything
useful. I use gdm, and I have no idea what window manager gdm imposes
on me. I do know that the window manager uses the wrong screen resolution,
so it's useless. It's as if the pixels are written into a C-style
two-dimensional array with one height and width, and then displayed
by reading them from a C-tyle array at the same location, but a different
height and witdh. I can see windows and things, but they've all been skewed
into unusablility.
gdm itself has a perfect login screen, so *something* in the
system knows how to do things right.
I've also installed icewm (my favourite window manager) in the hope
that a *new* window manager might he able to get its defaults right,
but gdm refuses to add it to the list. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure
on both gdm and icewm, to no effect. I seem to remember that this worked
just fine on my other sarge system to get gdm to recognise a new window
manager...
Allow me to display my ignorance: what is gdm? Is it another component
of the x-windows-system? When I re-installed x-windows, it asked me to
select gdm or xdm. It's not an acronym for gnome, is it? Let me man it.
But what is/are Shapes? I get seemingly related error messages on the
console from openbox:
Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0".
and other much more obstructive errors when i try blackbox and
enlightenment.
Hendrik, re your problem, could it be that you have the wrong video
settings in your XFree86 config?
Adam
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