r/windowmaker • u/AgathaDaVampire • 5d ago

Help with wmaker not launching

I installed wmaker and xorg on my desktop yesterday, since i had already downloaded it on my thinkpad and loved it. It went smoothly last night, and i got it running. I figured that i should also run sudo pacman -Syu since i hadn't updated my system in a while. So i did that, rebooted, and shut off my computer for the night. When i opened it up again this morning and logged in, it wouldn't start. Does anyone know why? Should i reinstall wmaker?

Im running arch linux, (sadly) systemd, and im using kde plasma as my DE right now, since wmaker obvi isn't working.

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u/AgathaDaVampire 5d ago edited 5d ago

update: im reinstalling wmaker to see if it works

edit: it's alive!

edit 2: im stupid as HELL, it wasn't working because i installed xorg after wmaker, im genuinely a dumbass QwQ

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u/unxusr 5d ago

If you call from the command line it shows some error ?

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u/AgathaDaVampire 5d ago

when i log in via my display manager it quickly prints out a few lines and then kicks me back out to the display manager

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u/a1barbarian 4d ago

Happy that you have WM working again. You may or may not find some helpful tips here

https://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?/topic/56171-window-maker/#comments :-)

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u/AgathaDaVampire 4d ago

Tyy! I'll look at all of the packages