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Sam_uel

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From: Leeds, UK

Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 13

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[solved - some how] Can't Start Ratpoison

I'm using SLiM and .xinitrc to start my xsessions. Awesome loads perfectly but ratpoison wont load.

Here's my .xinitrc

exec scmpc &
exec feh --bg-scale /home/samwalton/Pictures/archlinux-wallpaper-1.2/archlinux-poolclouds-43.jpg &
exec xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &
exec ratpoison

I've also tried

exec scmpc &
exec feh --bg-scale /home/samwalton/Pictures/archlinux-wallpaper-1.2/archlinux-poolclouds-43.jpg &
exec xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &
exec /usr/share/ratpoison

Any idea why it's not working, or which files I should look at to find out? (I've looked in .xession-errors, there isn't anything useful there).

Last edited by Sam_uel (2008-10-24 11:51:44)

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: [solved - some how] Can't Start Ratpoison

I would be better if you could get some error messages. Log into a terminal and start X with 'startx' - that should give you some output.
EDIT: or take a look at /var/log/Xorg.[n].log, where [n] is 0 or 1 - they get automatically rotated, so if your X restarts, the last one (0) is probably not going to be the one where the errors will be.
EDIT2: I highly doubt that ratpoison binary is in /usr/share/

Last edited by bender02 (2008-10-24 11:39:04)

Sam_uel

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From: Leeds, UK

Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 13

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Re: [solved - some how] Can't Start Ratpoison

The binary is in /usr/share/ for some reason.

It's loaded now, I have no idea why

Edit; I had uninstalled feh and it wasn't loading anything past that point. I'm stupid.

Last edited by Sam_uel (2008-11-11 19:57:18)