You are not logged in.

#1 2005-09-14 17:14:02

-eye
Member
Registered: 2005-08-24
Posts: 15

wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

hi evrybody

ive just installed arch 0.7 on a friends pc (just base, 86.0mb) and then xorg and the nvidia driver. last but not least ratpoison as the wm, so i set everything up, also my xinitrc. the line is

exec '/bin/ratpoison'

but when i startx my x server it tells me that it cant find the file ratpoison. what am i doing wrong? or: what the hell is arch doing wrong? tried about half an hour to get this to work but nothingg worked.

what to do now?! :oops:

Offline

#2 2005-09-14 17:17:15

pressh
Developer/TU
From: Netherlands
Registered: 2005-08-14
Posts: 1,719

Re: wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

change the line to:
exec /usr/bin/ratpoison

Offline

#3 2005-09-14 17:18:09

dtw
Forum Fellow
From: UK
Registered: 2004-08-03
Posts: 4,439
Website

Re: wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

well, where is ratpoison?

which ratpoison

Offline

#4 2005-09-14 17:20:20

-eye
Member
Registered: 2005-08-24
Posts: 15

Re: wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

omg, doh!!!
gonna check this out now. (and it should work, coz my ion-wm also started  from the usr/bin dir.) :evil:  roll

thx 4 reply

Offline

#5 2005-09-14 17:51:43

dtw
Forum Fellow
From: UK
Registered: 2004-08-03
Posts: 4,439
Website

Re: wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

OMG indeed....

Offline

#6 2005-09-14 19:42:03

Gullible Jones
Member
Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 4,863

Re: wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

You know, you don't have to specify the directory... And you don't need the quotes.

Offline

#7 2005-09-14 21:02:02

Euphoric Nightmare
Member
From: Kentucky
Registered: 2005-05-02
Posts: 283

Re: wtf is wrong with my xinitrc?!

Gullible Jones wrote:

You know, you don't have to specify the directory... And you don't need the quotes.

yeah..
exec ratpoison will do fine.  Thats what in mine.

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB