Re: FWD: Cannot use twm or metacity

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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





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