Thanks for the answer, i've already looked for solutions in the mailing list archive and on numerous forums. Now I can successfully launch i3 or awesome with startx /usr/local/bin/mywm but there is still the same xauth error: bad display name. $DISPLAY command returns nothing
2016-01-30 18:09 GMT+01:00 Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net>: > On 01/30/16 17:48, Lô Baret wrote: >> >> Hello, I recently installed OpenBSD 5.8 amd64 for the first time >> (default install options all the way) on my laptop (Thinkpad X200s) >> and everything went well until I tried to startx another window >> manager than the default fvwm. >> >> startx launches fvwm correctly but whenever I try with another window >> manager with startx /usr/bin/mywm (i3 or awesome or cwm) I get this >> error. I've looked for my wm packages in /usr/bin/ today and found >> nothing (???) but it seems to be still present on the system (don't >> know how to find package location) > > > anything that comes out of packages (or ports) tends to land somewhere under > /usr/local, so the binaries you're looking for will likely be in > /usr/local/bin. > > Other than that, pasting the error message (minus the hostname) into a > favorite search engine produces a number of potentially useful hints. > > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
