Newbie Question___ AfterStep???????

[ohohohmeme]

I am fairly new to linux

I am looking at new distributions for my box and I have the nw Yoper2 on ISO but before i install it, I was wondering which one(s) come with AfterStep ???????? Or if none do, which is the best distro for it. I am running an old AMDk6-2 500mghz with 128M of RAM (soon to be up to 256M)...But I also have a Dell inspiron 1100 with all the goodies. Which distro would be best for each that has or works well with after step?

[kkubasik]

I don't think there is exactly a 'best distro for afterstep' there may be one that defaults with it, but not in my experiance. since you already run Slackware, put it on that, slackware defaults with no X, and is quite adaptive. really, anything with a Xserve should have few problems.

[ohohohmeme]

okay i decided to install an rpm version of Afterstep 1.8.1 on my redhat 9 box(which i am using right now)....all went well with that but now how do i configure it so that i can use it just like it were KDE or gnome?

[kkubasik]

replace the line in ~/..xinitrc that reads exec kde --or exec gnome-session, comment that out and add exec afterstep or the like.

[ohohohmeme]

where in this mess do i do that?


#!/bin/sh
# (c) 1999-2002 Red Hat, Inc.

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
userxkbmap=$HOME/.Xkbmap

sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap
sysxkbmap=/etc/X11/Xkbmap

# merge in defaults
if [ -f "$sysresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$sysresources"
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi

# merge in keymaps
if [ -f "$sysxkbmap" ]; then
setxkbmap `cat "$sysxkbmap"`
XKB_IN_USE=yes
fi

if [ -f "$userxkbmap" ]; then
setxkbmap `cat "$userxkbmap"`
XKB_IN_USE=yes
fi

if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" -a ! -L /etc/X11/X ]; then
if grep '^exec.*/Xsun' /etc/X11/X > /dev/null 2>&1 && [ -f /etc/X11/XF86Config ]; then
xkbsymbols=`sed -n -e 's/^[ ]*XkbSymbols[ ]*"\(.*\)".*$/\1/p' /etc/X11/XF86Config`
if [ -n "$xkbsymbols" ]; then
setxkbmap -symbols "$xkbsymbols"
XKB_IN_USE=yes
fi
fi
fi

# xkb and xmodmap don't play nice together
if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" ]; then
if [ -f "$sysmodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$sysmodmap"
fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi
fi

unset XKB_IN_USE

# run all system xinitrc shell scripts.
for i in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* ; do
if [ -x "$i" ]; then
. "$i"
fi
done

# The user may have their own clients they want to run. If they don't,
# fall back to system defaults.
# set up ssh agent environment if available.

if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
[ -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent -a -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && \
exec ssh-agent $HOME/.Xclients || \
exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
[ -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent -a -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] && \
exec ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients || \
exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
# failsafe settings. Although we should never get here
# (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
if [ -x /usr/bin/netscape -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ]; then
netscape /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
fi
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ]; then
exec fvwm2
else
exec twm
fi
fi

[kkubasik]

see where it starts twm? doe you run twm? if not then we will have to look elsewere. if so, thats the line to replace

[ohohohmeme]

i run kde from GDM. I am very lost right now....i have been tearing apart config file is the X11 directory trying to figure out what lines need to be altered....I have a funny feeling it has to do with Xsessions....is there more info i can give you? Or maybe you know of a better resource for info on these config files?

[ohohohmeme]

and i am out of coffee.....AARGH!!!!!

[ohohohmeme]

.xinitrc does not exist in the home directory of any user. Xinitrc does but after adding the "exec afterstep" line to the end of it absolutly nothing different happened. So here is what i discovered. The default is actually called from another file in $HOME called .Xclients-default in here you should see next to nothing except a small info header and the one actual line of code that reads

exec startkde (or whatever your default desktop is)

simply change that to "exec afterstep" ....

AND ALA-PEANUTBUTTER SANDWICHES"

Folks you will then have AfterStep as your default desktop for that user....

the question is now will GDM still work?

How about KDM?

I shall see....

Happy Hacking!

(ps thanks qub333, you got me pointed in the very right direction, now for some new themes!)

[ohohohmeme]

Where do I begin?...I got it so that when i enter #startx i get AfterStep to start. Now I can't figure out how to run all my Xapps, nor can i get any of the themes to work....in fact half of the stuff that is packaged with AS doen;t work.....anyone familiar with this???????????/