XDarwin and window managers..

Well, XDarwin running with windowmaker was having a few problems (application menu wasnt working very well), so I used pkg remove to remove windowmaker. I guess that wasnt the smartest thing to try since now XDarwin won't start in even the simplest way.
I'm guessing i left some XDarwin config files that still point to some non existent windowmaker files, but then again I'm very new to this so any help would be appreciated.

Here's the console output:

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
OsVendorFatalError
AbortDDX
Quitting XDarwin...

edit your ~/.xinitrc file. Remove references to windowmaker such as:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><HR><pre>exec wmaker</pre>[/quote]

I looked at all the files pkg-remove would delete if I removed windowmaker and none of them are related to anything but windowmaker or used by any other applications.

Is there any way lesstif could have changed anything in a negative way? .xinitrc is just:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><HR><pre>
# Window Maker default X session startup script

PATH="$PATH:/bin"

# If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear
# in the console window.
#
# tail -f /var/root/.xsession-errors > /dev/console &

</pre>[/quote]

I just found out lesstif left a directory behind, /usr/local/Lesstif, even though i did a pkg remove of it.

Also, I can start x from /usr/x11r6/bin/x -quartz and it just gives me a grey screen.
I remember x used to start and give me xterm (and xclock or something), and once windowmaker was installed, they stopped appearing on startup. Is it possible that there might need to be a link to them or else i have no way of communicating with x?

once again any help is appreciated, and thanks for previous advice.

reinstall WM and run the wmaker.inst, it automaticly fixed up your .xinitrc. I tried to run x from /usr/X11R6/bin/X -quartz, i got the same thing bc the the xinitrc locations and such.

Add the path to your PATH file in /usr/share/init/tcsh/path (you may need to creat it):

setenv PATH "${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin"
setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man"

run 'startx -- -quartz ' from anywhere, makign sure you have the .xinitrc in your home with teh full path to the window manager you want. all should be fine now.

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Originally posted by Cliff Corner:
Is there any way lesstif could have changed anything in a negative way? .xinitrc is just:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><HR><pre>
# Window Maker default X session startup script

PATH="$PATH:/bin"

# If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear
# in the console window.
#
# tail -f /var/root/.xsession-errors > /dev/console &

</pre>

I just found out lesstif left a directory behind, /usr/local/Lesstif, even though i did a pkg remove of it.

Also, I can start x from /usr/x11r6/bin/x -quartz and it just gives me a grey screen.
I remember x used to start and give me xterm (and xclock or something), and once windowmaker was installed, they stopped appearing on startup. Is it possible that there might need to be a link to them or else i have no way of communicating with x?

once again any help is appreciated, and thanks for previous advice.[/quote]

Your problem is/was you had NO window manager set to start when X starts -- X by itself wont get you more than a grey screen.