Editor: Aaron D. Turner
Email: aturner@pobox.com
Web Page: http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/

System Architecture: Intel
RedHat Release: RHL 5.2
FAQ Category: X Windows
Modification Date: Feb 15, 1999

Question:

Getting AfterStep to work after upgrading to RH 5.2

Answer:

 
  I'm pleased to annouce that as a newbee I resolved problem of loosing
 AfterStep manager after upgrade from 1.5b to 1.6.6 in RedHat5.2.OK.

 1. Uninstall old Afterstep with command rpm -e Afterstep
 2.Rename your ~GNUstep to ~GNUstepold with command
   mv GNUstep GNUstepold
 3.Go to /usr/X11R6/bin and edit file RunWM.AfterStep and edit path in
 part for  AfterStep function :

 Start_AfterStep () {
 # we have to start up afterstep
   if [ -x /usr/local/bin/afterstep ] ; then
     mkdir -p $HOME/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep
     wmconfig --output=afterstep --directories  2>/dev/null
     env > "$HOME"/Xrootenv.0
     # if this works, we stop here
     eval "exec /usr/local/bin/afterstep" > "$HOME"/.AfterStep-errors 2>&1
   else
     cat <<EOF

  WARNING: You selected AfterStep as your window manager, but your
 installation
  of AfterStep does not appear to be functional. Either 
/usr/local/bin/afterstep
  was not found or /usr/local/share/afterstep directory is incomplete.
 EOF

  In places that I highlited in blue. This should change also file RunWM.
 Just in case
 check that. Now  just exit Xwindows.
 And install new AfterStep1.6.6-3 with command
 rpm -Uvh AfterStep-1.6.6-3.i386.rpm
 Restart Xwindows and simply switch to AfterStep. There is no problem in
 switching windows managers.
 
 
 P.S. I upgraded wmconfig to newest version wmconfig-0.6-3.i386.rpm from
 Tomas Prohazka. I'm not sure if this had influence  in configuring
 AfterStep1.6.6 in Red Hat 5.2.
 
  
  
 
 

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