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DMSynck

Member

From: Texas

Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 6

Xorg cant find windowmaker

Greetings,

I am a brand new Arch user and so far I am finding it informative, but challenging. Anyway, here is my question. I installed and configured the base system, installed Xorg, nvidia drivers, xterm, and windowmaker. I edited /etc/Xorg.conf appropriately and created a bare bones ~/.xinitrc consisting of the following -

#!/bin/bash
xterm -geometry 80x25+494-0 &
exec windowmaker

The problem is that when I run startx, it returns the error that it cant find windowmaker. I checked inside /usr/bin and did not see any windowmaker executable. There is a windowmaker config file under /etc and windowmaker files under /usr/share, but no executable. Any one seen this before ?

Thanks in advance

DMSynck

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Xorg cant find windowmaker

The executable name is wmaker.
You can use 'pacman -Ql windowmaker' to list the package content.

DMSynck

Member

From: Texas

Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 6

Re: Xorg cant find windowmaker

Thanks for your help. I found the executable "wmaker" and all works now.

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If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day.  If you teach someone to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.