On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas Miller wrote:

> juha.nygard1@netikka.fi wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas Miller wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, 
> > > 
> > > On a Powermac 7300/200 I thought I might try using the 
> > > tvtwm window manager as a workaround for Xmacppc's 
> > > 640x480 limitation.  
> > > 
> > > Is there a better workaround than tvtwm (aside from 
> > > installing a video card)?
> > > 
> > > I am using NetBSD-1.6.  When I run 
> > > 
> > > # startx 
> > > 
> > > Xmacppc seems to run just fine using twm.  This is 
> > > out-of-the-box without any configuration.  I built 
> > > tvtwm from pkgsrc/wm, but I don't know how to tell 
> > > Xmacppc to use tvtwm instead of twm.  
> > > 
> > > # man xmacppc
> > > man: no entry for xmacppc in the manual.
> > > # man Xmacppc
> > > man: no entry for Xmacppc in the manual.
> > > # exit
> > > 
> > > How to I tell Xmacppc to use tvtwm?  
> > > 
> > > Is there Xmacppc documentation?  If yes, where?  
> > > 
> > > Thanks! 
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > 
> > > 
> >
> > ~/.xinitrc perhaps? Or just replace the twm binary.
> >
> > Juha
> >
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I had tried both of your suggestions.  
> 
> Both seem to give the same result: Xmacppc appears to start 
> but without xclock and the three xterms which are the defaults.  
> Instead, there is a blank screen.  Clicking on the screen brings 
> up a menu which does not have an entry for xterm.  The menu is 
> red, unlike the default menu, which is green.  The menu says 
> TWM at the top, not tvTWM, but I never used tvtwm before, so I 
> don't know what to expect or whether the color change is 
> significant.  
> 
> Any other ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks again! 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

I set up Xmacppc on NetBSD so that I installed only the server part and 
all the libraries were from XFree86. It works well. I start X server with 
command 'startx'. You could propably start the X server independently, 
wait couple of seconds to let it start and after that start the window 
manager. Like this:

export DISPLAY=":0.0"
X&
sleep 3
yourfavouritewindowmanager


I wrote that down from memory so it is possible that it isn't correct. But 
you should try that technique.


Juha