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18 ElroyLiddington 1 !!! Joes Window Manager
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17 ElroyLiddington 5 !! Basic config of Light-Weight Window Manager on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Server install.
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9 ! NOTES: As 'root' user
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13 ! 1. Install xorg (X Window System) and jwm (Window Manager)
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15 "apt-get install xorg jwm mc" - make sure xorg is installed FIRST - installing jwm first then xorg does NOT work :-)
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17 'mc' is 'Midnight Commander' - a very useful text-based file manager.
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21 ! 2. If you run "startx" now, you will get a cursor and a locked machine - at least I did
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23 This is due to no config file being found.
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25 The location for the system-wide config file was not created for me so:
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27 "mkdir /etc/jwm"
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32 ! 3. Locate the jwmrc config file - this tells jwm and xorg how everything is set up - if xorg? cannot find this config file, you get the above result
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34 I found a default one here:
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36 '/usr/share/doc/jwm/examples/example.jwmrc.gz'
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38 Note the '*.gz' on the end - this indicates it is compressed, and needs uncompressing first.
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43 ! 4. Copy the config file to '/tmp' (a place where we can do temporary file operations where we can't screw any system settings up)
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45 "cp /usr/share/doc/jwm/examples/example.jwmrc.gz /tmp"
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50 ! 5. Move to '/tmp' directory
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52 "cd /tmp"
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54 Do a "ls" to make sure you see the above *jwmrc.gz file is present - if not something is wrong.
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59 ! 6. Uncompress the config file
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61 "gunzip /tmp/example.jwmrc.gz" - this should leave a 'example.jwmrc' file in the '/tmp' directory - do another 'ls' to make sure.
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67 ! 7. Copy the config file to the correct location AND rename it at the same time
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69 "cp /tmp/example.jwmrc /etc/jwmrc"
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75 ! 8. Check to make sure the file is in the right place '/etc/jwm' and is named correctly 'jwmrc'
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77 'ls /etc/jwm'
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84 ! 9. Fire up xwindows/xorg to see if it works
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86 "startx"
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88 Hopefully you boot into a very minmal window manager with at least a menu you can click on :-)
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95 Helpful Links:
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97 http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/xwtf.html
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99 http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/index.shtml
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18 ElroyLiddington 105 Part of CategoryWindowManager
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