Re: AfterStep 1.4 startx problems

Simon Drabble (simon@fiddletrudge.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:01:57 -0400 (EDT) 

Type this at the prompte

locate afterstep

Look for the line something like

/usr/X11/bin/afterstep

This is the full path to afterstep, so either use this in full in
~/.xinitrc or set your path to include /usr/X11/bin (or whatever)

Simon.


On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Justin wrote:

> Hi, I am fairly new to linux and I am trying to get my AfterStep 1.4
> working.  I had a friend in #linux walk me through the installation step
> by step so I am pretty sure everything is set up correctly.  However,
> this is where I get my error....I type "startx" at my user prompt and it
> goes through the normal loading procedure of Xwindows, flashes the blue
> screen then goes back to the prompt screen with an error that say's
> "exec: afterstep: not found."  I have tried messing w/ my ".xinitrc"
> file and setting the correct $PATH and pretty much anything else that
> you can think of (or I could think of).  Basically I think my problem is
> locating the "afterstep" executable and putting it in the ".xinitrc"
> file.  Anyway, I would appreciate any help possible, I have been working
> on this for about a week.  Is Linux really this hard??  Thanks in
> advance...
> 
>                 Justin
> 
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