Problem with `window manager already running' X-windows error

Zadok ml@wisent.de
Wed Feb 4 23:18:00 GMT 1998


>

Hi there !

>  Starnet's x-win32 and other high-end commercial X servers are
> in this category. Therefore, if you try to run "fvwm" with these
> X-servers you
> get the `window manager already running' because indeed MS Windows is
> the
> window manager already in charge. In any event, you should check the
> documentation that came with your X server.
>

that's only partially true, ( I use XWin32 ) and with its configuration
program ( called Xutil.exe ) one is able to choose between 2 modes of
operation: "virtual root" and "normal". normal just uses windows as wm
but virtual root provides just a window inside which any UN*X wm may
run.

I hope this helps
Michael


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