Re: Using WindowMaker under Debian
On jue, 01 mar 2001, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Santiago Fernandez <fasanti@usc.es> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two questions about using WindowMaker and I haven't been able
> > to find an answer.
> >
> > Firstly, when I run WindowMaker with startx I cannot save either my
> > session or my settings using WPrefs or wmakerconf. I have different
> > partitions for /home, /usr, etc... The system says it cannot make a
> > symbolic link between devices (I don't remember the exact error
> > message and I can't check it now). If I use a graphical login
> > application (such as xdm, Login.app, etc...) I don't have that
> > problem, but I cannot afford the waste of memory. I've checked
> > permissions, Xserver configuration and startx options but I haven't
> > been able to find what's missing.
>
> If you have set TMPDIR, then this has already been reported, but I
> don't remember which bug report. You just need to unset TMPDIR before
> running startx and it should work properly. Apparently the package
> tries to rename using a hard link from the file in TMPDIR to /tmp.
> Stupid...
>
> --
> Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
>
Ok, my first question has been solved, thank you.
Regarding my second question, it seems to correspond to a reported
bug, but I don't know how to solve it yet. Could someone send me a
FSViewer's configuration file (~/GNUstep/Defaults/FSViewer) so as to
give fsviewer a try? Thanks.
--
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