On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:45:41PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > I have installed shrike choosing KDE workstation + some extra > packages. Today, to compare performance with or without KDE, I created > a .xinitrc file with "exec metacity" in it. I got some second of black > screen and cross cursor, then black screen with arrow cursor and > nothing happened anymore. Switching back to console 1, where I had > given the startx command, I read what is pasted below (previous lines > lost, sorry). You started metacity, metacity is running. If you don't open any windows, that's all metacity does - it changes the cursor. metacity doesn't overlap the desktop at all, there's no root window menu, no panel, nothing. With twm there probably is a root window menu if you click the right button. Havoc
