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- From: rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
- Subject: Re: MacX and TVTWM "problem"
- Message-ID: <rhaller-150992093257@rhaller.cc.uoregon.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 16:36:58 GMT
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- It has been pointed out to me that the original would better have gone in
- .comm. I am posting the solution here to forstall additional
- postings/responses.
-
- In article <rhaller-140992134746@rhaller.cc.uoregon.edu>,
- rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller) wrote:
- >
- > I'm running MacX 1.1 on a IIci under system 7.0 (no tuneup).
- [deletions]
- > I get a successful xterm and then start up tvtwm and get the following:
- >
- > >xylem% tvtwm&
- > >[1] 6692
- > >xylem% tvtwm: another window manager is already running on screen 0?
- > >tvtwm: another window manager is already running on screen 2?
- >
- > Other than these messages, everything seems to work OK.
- >
- > What's going on?
-
- twm (and tvtwm) attempt, by default to manage all displays, not just the
- default. Use the -s option to avoid this.
-
- Solution thanks to Clay P Booker who didn't tell me to RTFM even though the
- solution is clearly given there :-)
- Moral? RTFM before posting (and post to the right group).
-
- -Rich Haller
-