.xinitrc ?

Danilo Turina danilo.turina@alcatel.it
Fri Apr 9 06:18:00 GMT 2004


Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> twm:  another window manager is already running on screen 0?
> twm:  unable to find any unmanaged screens
> 
> If I use .xinitrc with "exec twm", startx reports the above.

If you use startx, by default, the multi-window mode is used (startx 
passed -multiwindow to XWin.exe) and, hence,  the native Windows window 
manager is used as X window manager.

> The same using another window manager. It works fine if I add
> it to startxwin.sh. It used to work with XFree86.

Instead using startxwin.sh "-multiwindow" is not passed to XWin.exe and 
you have to old behavior.

Ciao,

		Danilo

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