Re: error starting ion3

Hi,

You're right. I was running another wm (twm). So I just killed it, and ion3
started as expected.
I've read the README, but the fact is that I wasn't aware of running another
wm, and I tried to run nearly like what I did during previous tests on
Fedora (xinit, then ion3 in xterm). The difference was that I ran startx
instead of xinit...
Note that, since my previous mail, I've launch wmii, and its error message
was far more explicit, and I succeeded to start it after killing twm. At the
time, I did not realize that the problem should have been the same with ion.
wmii did not suit me at all, so I so happy now back with ion.

Best regards,

BrokenClock

2008/7/2 Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>:

> 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.
>
> --
> Tuomo
>
>