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List:       netbsd-users
Subject:    Re: window managers
From:       steve () prd ! co ! uk (Steve Blinkhorn)
Date:       2016-04-28 21:21:40
Message-ID: 20160428212140.8F9CF1E4BB () body ! prd ! co ! uk
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You wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone suggest a good way forward with X11 window managers using
> > X11R& (I'm in the processw of moving to amd64 7.0).   For many years I
> > have used IceWM, but the pkgsrc binary  fails with symbol _XGetRequest
> > not found in libXext.so.7.  If I compile from source I get a segfault.
> > 
> > The pkgsrc mwm binary fails in the same way.   But twm works (does
> > anyone actually use twm these days?).o
> 
> Sounds like you may have a mix of X11 packages built using different 
> dependencies (maybe built on different systems). It also sounds like you 
> may have multiple X11 libraries installed that are incompatible.
> 


You may well be right, but everything I'm using comes from the
pre-compiled binaries in 7.0/All using pkg_add.

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>
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