[H-GEN] AfterStep help

[A Bruce In The Land Of The Bruces]

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Adrian Bolzan wrote:

> I recently installed AfterStep on my computer.  I am having a couple of
> problems.  

Funny, most people get that when installing Win9{5,8} on their computers
;)

> First, i was able to remove selected icons from the wharf toolbar.
> however, when i want to change a program, such as the clock from 'asclock'
> to 'oclock'then  whenever i try to close an xterm or window, or even
> afterstep itself, i always get the menu that comes up when you left-click
> on the background.  can anyone help?  the left-click menu is th one that
> lets you choose utilities, applications and exit options, etc.

You are running afterstep, and after you try and change the (running)
'asclock' to 'oclock' in the toolbar, attempts to close an xterm (by left
clicking on the afterstep command icon in the window frame?) or afterstep
itself (how?), you get the same menu that normally comes up when you
left-click on the background.  right?

huh?  Sounds like you need to read the afterstep docs again actually,
makes no sense to me.

> secondly,  i do not seem to be able to run 'make xconfig' or 'make
> menuconfig' in afterstep.  however, when i switch to fvwm2 i can run them.
> any ideas?

Assuming that in both cases you are typing the command 'make menuconfig'
whilst in your linux source tree (eg /usr/src/linux) then the only thing
that would stop it working in afterstep is something fairly basic missing
from your $PATH, like /usr/bin .  Try 'echo $PATH' in both window managers
and seeing what the differences are.

As for 'make xconfig', assuming that its not a repeat of the above, then
possibly some of the X resources or the environment is incorrect in
afterstep causing the make and execution of the
x-linux-kernel-config-proggy to fail.  Not likely though, since who'd
write a window manager that made so many changes to your working
environment.  

So, make sure you are doing the same command, in the same directory, with
the same shell (bash by preference), with the same environment, under both
window managers, and see what happens.

--==--
Bruce.

To become the (goblin) King, one must assassinate the current King.  Thus,
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  -- MTG quote.