I successfully moved my OS 10.1.2 system files to another larger partition using Carbon Copy Cloner, and deleted my old system files from the smaller partition. Most programs seem to work O.K. off the cloned system although I had to re-establish some links to my Dock (in place of the "?"). However, XDarwin would not boot, or rather it booted and then quit. After a few tries I decided to re-install xFree86. That now works O.K. However my Window Maker manager did not work so I used fink to re-install (or upgrade) that.
I tried twice to no avail. XDarwin keeps giving me the green screen without the window. My Terminal log after the fink install looks like this:
Welcome to Darwin!
[localhost:~] jfwoods% sudo apt-get install windowmaker
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, windowmaker is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
[localhost:~] jfwoods% rehash
[localhost:~] jfwoods% wmaker.inst
Installing WindowMaker 0.80.0 for current user...
Copying defaults database...
The configuration file "WMGLOBAL" already exists in your defaults database.
Do you wish to replace it? <y/n/a> [n]
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Typed "a" to replace all (just in case there was a file corruption somewhere)
And the log ended up with...
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The file "wmmacros" already exists in /Users/jfwoods/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
Do you wish to replace it? <y/n/a> [n] a
Sorry, font coding or locale en_US not recognized.
Type wsetfont with no arguments for list of supported font codings...
Now the .xinitrc, .Xclients or .xsession script must be updated so that
it calls wmaker when you start an X session.
Type the name of the file that must be changed (normally .xinitrc).
If the file already exists, it will be backed up with a .old.Feb16.10:01:13
extension
If you want to edit it by hand, hit <Control>-C now.
^C
Installation Finished
There are menus in 2 different file formats. The plain text format and
the property list format. The plain text format is more flexible, but
the menu in the property list format can be edited graphically. The
menu that will be used by default is the property list one. Read
/Users/jfwoods/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/README
for information on how to change it.
[localhost:~] jfwoods%
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There seems to be some sort of font coding problem ("Sorry, font coding or locale en_US not recognized") but I don't know what to do about it. Also, I'm not sure whether I did the right thing with this .xinitrc file.
Any ideas??
Thanks
xchanyazy
02-16-2002, 01:11 PM
try sudo fink remove windowmaker, and then sudo fink install windowmaker, then rehash, then wmaker.inst. If that doesn't help, try deleting the /sw partition and starting over.
b1hgaa88
02-17-2002, 03:13 PM
Many thanks Greg. Had to trash my sw folder but everything now working fine after a re-install
xchanyazy
02-17-2002, 03:16 PM
Excellent, I'm glad it worked out for you.
--Greg
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