Re: error starting ion3
"Stéphane Mourey" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general |
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By the way, it seems that you have to use .xinitrc instead of .xsession with Gentoo... 2008/7/2 Stéphane Mourey <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> >