On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:58, Tom Emerson wrote:
I'll believe you for the moment, but I suspect there is a little bit of misdirection going on here by using xterm as an example. Basically, xterm lets you execute an arbitrary program [via a command line interface]; because of this, you can indeed start "a window manager" and all is well. I suspect that if you start with Evolution [which I'm guessing is what the original user did] you do NOT have the ability to execute an "arbitrary" program [i.e., evolution does not make a menu item or command option for such] and therefore you (effectively) cannot start a window manager of any sort -- kind of like finding a roadblock in the middle of your favorite shortcut to home from work (or school...) ;)
Fair enough, do this then With no X running startx /opt/gnome2/bin/evolution or whatever the path is to the version you have. Note that you don't have window borders or the ability to resize; no window manager is running. Then ctrl+alt+f2 to go to a console, log in as the same user who started evolution, and do export DISPLAY=:0.0 mwm& and switch back to X with ctrl+F7 and resize to your heart's content