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Re: Life without a Window Manager

  • Subject: Re: Life without a Window Manager
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:39:54 +0200
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> __/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 06 October 2006 00:41 \__
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Culley belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>> 
>>> begin  risky.vbs
>>> <l56dnXY_4KETc7nYnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Man, last night XFce blew up in my face!
>>>> 
>>>> [snip]
>>>> 
>>>> Turns out there was no xfwm4 (window manager) running!  WTF?
>>>> 
>>>> I look around in .config/xfce4, but could not find anything to fix.
>>>
>>> Why didn't you just run the xfce (or any) wm from a terminal window. A
>>> wm is just an X client albeit a rather special one.
>> 
>> I did that, but no go.  But I had the wrong args anyway:
>> 
>>    xfwm4 --sm-client-id 11c0a86d12000109923752900000003540000 --display
>>    :0.0
>> 
>> All is well, though.  Actually a little better as it seems a wee bit
>> faster.
>> 
>> Next time I'll do better forensics!
>
> That's why they call it "beta" and advice that you only install it on your
> test machine (or test CMS or whatever). *smile*
>
> Hope you get this sorted out...

Nearly all Linux SW is "beta" Roy : and you cream your panties over its
quality. And yet when Vista alphas and betas have issues you're jumping
up and down like a little girl who has been refused a new barbie doll.

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