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corruption

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 6

wmii problem

Hi, i've downloaded wmii and installed it using pacman but everytime I try to start it I get this message: "cannot open dpy" what would be the fix for this? Thanks.

veek

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Re: wmii problem

Sounds like you are just trying to start wmii from the console without
starting X, so it can't find a display.

In your ~/.xinitrc comment out any other window manager
that might be executed and add the line: exec wmii

At the console run startx, and wmii should start.