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	qole	2008-07-15 , 19:10
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Originally Posted by offensivebias

I did what you said about xpice, but how do I launch "debwm xfce wmxfce" on an icon like icewm ? Or if too complicated to explain in which terminal should I launch it ?
(because when I input "debwm xfce wmxfce" in a debian chroot terminal, it tells me command not found and when I launch it from a 0S2008 terminal the host window appears, sadly, debian and xfce do not follow ).
Maybe I should put something else too in the wmxfce ? I tried to replace "icewm-session" with "xfce-session" and "startxfce4" (the command to start xfce on a normal computer)

First, I realized that fatalsaint's instructions need one little bit more to make things work smoothly. Find this line in your Debian script:

Code:

Xephyr :1 -br -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 parent `wmctrl -l | grep -i icewm | awk '{print $1}'` -ac &

This line starts the Xephyr nested X-Server. It looks for a host window titled "icewm" and then uses that window. So if you want to call your host window something else (like xfce4), you have to change the "icewm" in that line to "xfce4". Basically, you change "icewm" to whatever your first parameter of "debwm" is.

Now, the "debwm" command is in OS2008, so you have to run that from an OS2008 terminal, not a Debian chroot terminal. You can troubleshoot your Debian wmxfce script by opening two terminal windows, the standard osso-xterm window and Debian chroot terminal. In the osso-xterm window, enter:

Code:

openwindow.py xfce4

This will open the host window for xfce4.

Now, in the Debian chroot, you run wmxfce (make sure you've made the change above). If it doesn't work, or if it starts up in something other than the xfce4 host window, post the errors, and I'll help out.

When it all works, you can run this from a non-Debian OS2008 terminal or make a menu item to do this automagically:

Code:

debwm xfce4 wmxfce

EDIT: Just in case you didn't notice, I have a special affection for xfce4; I pestered JohnX about making it the default window manager for bootable Debian, and it was the first WM I got running using this method, see this post back on the first page.

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