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    Accessing WindowMaker

    Was having a lot of minor glitches with WIndowMaker (installed from the Mandrake 8.2 disks) so took it off and re-installed it from a tarball. Now I am unable to access it. Made a file (.xsession) and placed the following in it: "exec WindowMaker&quot. Still no luck. Any suggestions?

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    how are you entering X ? and what do ay get when ya enter which wmaker?

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    Was entering at level five - changed it to enter at text only. which wmaker returned: "usr/local/bin/wmaker" I changed the .xsession file to read "EXEC wmaker" hoping to access it thru the default but no luck.
    how are you entering X ? and what do ay get when ya enter which wmaker?

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    hello,
    try exec /usr/local/wmaker ...

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    Tried that but same result - opened in KDE. (There are times when KDE reminds me of Windoze).
    hello,
    try exec /usr/local/wmaker ...

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    do ya have a ~/.xinitrc ? if so try putting the commands in there, if not make a link to .xsession - e.g. ln -s .xsssion .xinitrc

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    No, no .xinitrc.
    do ya have a ~/.xinitrc ? if so try putting the commands in there, if not make a link to .xsession - e.g. ln -s .xsssion .xinitrc

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    Re: Accessing WindowMaker

    Problem solved. Gave up and re-installed it - this time in RPM. For some reason my system/Mandrake 8.2 does not like tar versions. Works fine now - what a great window manager!
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    Was having a lot of minor glitches with WIndowMaker (installed from the Mandrake 8.2 disks) so took it off and re-installed it from a tarball. Now I am unable to access it. Made a file (.xsession) and placed the following in it: "exec WindowMaker&quot. Still no luck. Any suggestions?

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