Problem about window managers

[Brian Dessent]

Alireza Ghasemi wrote:

> I compiled Fvwm95 and I tried to run it using " startx -e fvwm95.exe "  but
> it failed and said that " there is Another window manager running " . What's
> wrong and what should I do to solve it ?

You're probably using -multiwindow mode when starting XWin.exe which
means that Windows itself is the window manager and you cannot use an
external WM.  You will need to start with -fullscreen or -rootless (or
maybe -mwextwm ??)

Brian

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