Re: window managers

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

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.