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!! Basic config of Light-Weight Window Manager on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Server install.

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! NOTES: As 'root' user

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! 1. Install xorg (X Window System) and jwm (Window Manager)

    "apt-get install xorg jwm mc" - make sure xorg is installed FIRST - installing jwm first then xorg does NOT work :-)

    'mc' is 'Midnight Commander' -  a very useful text-based file manager.

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! 2. If you run "startx" now, you will get a cursor and a locked machine - at least I did

    This is due to no config file being found.

    The location for the system-wide config file was not created for me so:

    "mkdir /etc/jwm"

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! 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

    I found a default one here:

    '/usr/share/doc/jwm/examples/example.jwmrc.gz'

    Note the '*.gz' on the end - this indicates it is compressed, and needs uncompressing first.


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! 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)

    "cp /usr/share/doc/jwm/examples/example.jwmrc.gz /tmp"

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! 5. Move to '/tmp' directory

    "cd /tmp"

    Do a "ls" to make sure you see the above *jwmrc.gz file is present - if not something is wrong.


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! 6. Uncompress the config file

    "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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! 7. Copy the config file to the correct location AND rename it at the same time

    "cp /tmp/example.jwmrc /etc/jwmrc"


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! 8. Check to make sure the file is in the right place '/etc/jwm' and is named correctly 'jwmrc'

    'ls /etc/jwm'



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! 9. Fire up xwindows/xorg to see if it works

    "startx"

    Hopefully you boot into a very minmal window manager with at least a menu you can click on :-)



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Helpful Links:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/xwtf.html

http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/index.shtml

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Last edited on Saturday, December 4, 2010 10:26:07 am by ElroyLiddington
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