From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: Trying to get olvwm to work Date: 28 Jul 1992 17:31:08 GMT
In article <1992Jul28.024155.6124@mach4.wlu.ca> gis@mach4.wlu.ca (gis research) writes:
>
>I downloaded the olvwm binaries from banjo and installed them as intructed,
>but I'm not too sure about how to run it. I start X and then type olvwm at
>the Xterm, but it gives me "Segmentation Fault (core dumped)" Is this how to
>run it, and if so any ideas why I get the error. If not, could someone
>instruct me how to get it going. Thanks for any help,
>
>Alastair Small
>asmall2@mach1.wlu.ca or
>gis@mach4.wlu.ca
>
>
olvwm is a window manager, just as twm is, and should be started before any
xterms. Just comment out the "twm" line in xinitrc (?) and add the line
"olvwm".
I created a .xinitrc in my $HOME directory so that other users (if I ever
have any on my system) will have twm by default. A personal copy of .xinitrc
overrides the default xinitrc.
Hope this helps,
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)