Failed to load configuration
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Description
After finishing building and installing of mlvwm, as guided, I tried cloning this repository and ran the provided commands. After installation, .mlvwmrc and .mlvwm/ are in my home directory. But unfortunately mlvwm failed to load the configurations. There was only a blank screen as following.
The top bar showed some error messages showing "Failed to load x", "Failed to load font x", etc.
I ask you for some help regarding this, I would love to have a desktop like the one you have showed in the readme.
Issue Starting mlvwm
Running mlvwm directly never worked for me
I put exec mlvwm in my .xinitrc, then started xserver with startx. Then got mlvwm running.
Attempt with Display managers
I'm pretty new to linux configurations, after looking up guides, I tried using xdm display manager. The xdm login window showed up, but unfortunately it never succeeded to start an mlvwm session. According to the docs, I only had to put mlvwm in the .xsession file. The same behavior was shown by lightdm, it failed to start the session.
System Details
I'm running it on Virtualbox for now, just to test if I will succeed in installing originally.
- VirtualBox 6.1.34
- Arch Linux 2022.06.01 VM
- xdm display manager
- Windows 10 host machine
I was able to figure it out later on, the font missing messages kept appearing on my arch linux.
But i also tried mlvwm on a openBSD vm, it didnt show any of those error messages. Here's the arch version running fine. I'm currently figuring out how to add more applications to the menu. This project is awesome, keep it going.
Also i'd like to point out, only the startx method worked for me (putting exec mlvwm in .xinitrc and then running startx).
Even though lightdm greeter was able to detect and load the DESKTOP file for mlvwm, it never succeeded on loggin into it.