Icewm restart

Alexander Gottwald Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon Aug 27 03:24:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Luc Ferran wrote:

> Using Cygwin 1.3.2 with last Xfree on NT, I've compiled icewm and start
> Xfree using startxwin.bat.
> Icewm starts normaly. If I use the restart window manager feature, the
> twm process die normaly, but when it try to restart it says that there
> is already an active window manager and stops. I've tried to start twm
> but it say the same thing.
> Moreover, I don't know what is the command line lauched by icewm to
> restart!
> 
> I don't know enouth the X startup to understat the problem, neigther
> where to looking for!
> 

In startxwin.bat, replace the line with twm by a line calling icewm. This 
should help.

bye
    ago
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