Re: adventures with window managers

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 09/12/05

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    Adam Hardy on 11/09/05 22:53, wrote:
    > I just put a .xinitrc file in my $HOME with 'blackbox' as the window
    > manager, and I found a 'window manager' submenu.
    >
    > This allows me to change from blackbox to metacity or afterwm or several
    > others, but enlightenment, sawfish and uwm wont run, giving an error
    > like this:
    >
    > X-window does not contain the SHAPE library
    >
    > This isn't exactly what it said, since it was

    Sorry, that was pretty dumb. Clicked Send by mistake. The exact message was:

    UWM: Your X-Server doesn't support the SHAPES extension ..... terminating

    I can't find any reference to SHAPES extension in synaptic. Where does
    it reside? 

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