Re: error starting ion3

On 2008-07-02, Stéphane Mourey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm currently tring to run Ion3 on a freshly installed Gentoo Linux distro.
> The installation seems to have been successful, but, when I type "ion3" in
> an xterm, I get an error:
> "Unable to redirect root window event for screen 0.
> Refusing to start due to encountered errors."

RTFREADME installation notes. You're likely running another WM
already. You should set up your X startup files to launch Ion 
instead of that. E.g. create .xsession containing

    #!/bin/sh
    ion3

and startx should automatically use it on most systems.
If you use a fucked up display manager, you may these days
 need to somehow force it to use .xsession. Traditionally
it was _exactly the display manager_ that .xsession was
for, while startx/xinit didn't use it. But the desktop
herd don't want things to work so simple.

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