Re: New user, some help please
Gordon Messmer (yinyang@eburg.com)
Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:01:27 -0800
Chris Green wrote:
>
> 2 - I know there are some references to this in the FAQ but they are a
> bit obtuse. How can I simplify the pigs ear that RedHat makes of
> starting up X? It's a horrible mish-mash of different approaches as
> supplied. Can I just clean up the startx file, build my own .xinitrc
> and ignore the rest?
You certainly could, but startx is as supplied by XFree, AFAIK. I've
never really had a problem with it. Just :
echo "afterstep" > .xinitrc
chmod a+x .xinitrc
And if you start using runlevel 5 (xdm).
ln -s .xinitrc .xsession
>
> 3 - One note in the FAQ suggests that RedHat uses M4 configuration
> files for AfterStep but this doesn't seem to be so to me (not in 5.2
> anyway), am I right? The directories below $HOME/GNUstep/... seem to
> be as described in the documentation and seem to work OK.
Did you install AfterStep from your RedHat CD? Or did you download
the sources from the afterstep web site? RedHat distributes a patched
version to play nicer with their scheme of adding apps to wm's menus.
>
> 4 - Are Wharf and Zharf fundamentally different? I can't quite see
> any significant difference at the moment.
Haven't used Zharf much..
MSG
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