Editor: Aaron D. Turner
Email: aturner@pobox.com
Web Page: http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/
System Architecture: Intel
RedHat Release: RHL 5.2
FAQ Category: X Windows
Modification Date: Feb 15, 1999
Getting AfterStep to work after upgrading to RH 5.2
I'm pleased to annouce that as a newbee I resolved problem of loosing AfterStep manager after upgrade from 1.5b to 1.6.6 in RedHat5.2.OK. 1. Uninstall old Afterstep with command rpm -e Afterstep 2.Rename your ~GNUstep to ~GNUstepold with command mv GNUstep GNUstepold 3.Go to /usr/X11R6/bin and edit file RunWM.AfterStep and edit path in part for AfterStep function : Start_AfterStep () { # we have to start up afterstep if [ -x /usr/local/bin/afterstep ] ; then mkdir -p $HOME/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep wmconfig --output=afterstep --directories 2>/dev/null env > "$HOME"/Xrootenv.0 # if this works, we stop here eval "exec /usr/local/bin/afterstep" > "$HOME"/.AfterStep-errors 2>&1 else cat <<EOF WARNING: You selected AfterStep as your window manager, but your installation of AfterStep does not appear to be functional. Either /usr/local/bin/afterstep was not found or /usr/local/share/afterstep directory is incomplete. EOF In places that I highlited in blue. This should change also file RunWM. Just in case check that. Now just exit Xwindows. And install new AfterStep1.6.6-3 with command rpm -Uvh AfterStep-1.6.6-3.i386.rpm Restart Xwindows and simply switch to AfterStep. There is no problem in switching windows managers. P.S. I upgraded wmconfig to newest version wmconfig-0.6-3.i386.rpm from Tomas Prohazka. I'm not sure if this had influence in configuring AfterStep1.6.6 in Red Hat 5.2.
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