Trouble with Mandrake's Session Manager

[Lärs]

Ok, so the deal is, I installed a WM from source (namely AfterStep) and it installed successfully. Now what I'm looking at is the way to get it on the Mandrake Session Manager. I tried booting to init 3 and running afterstep from the commandline, to no avail. I've also tried other window managers under the commandline as well. Apparently they give me something along the lines of the following:

Afterstep cannot use X on "" .  Now aborting.

I've also tried adding an AfterStep file to /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ that coincided with the other WM files, and that didn't go by well. Is there another way I can get Afterstep on my MDKKDM Session Manager? I've heard something about a utility called kcontrol, please tell me if using it is the right way to go.

Thank you.

[edit] I was looking at other entries and found startx afterstep would be the way to go under the CLI. I'll see if using KControl resolves the umm... session manager list.

Edited July 6, 2005 by Lärs

[Lärs]

Well then, I figured out how to boot afterstep from runmode 3, no problem there.

I think I found the way to get it on MDKKDM. It supposedly would involve running /usr/sbin/fndsession as root after I finished making the file in /etc/X11/wmsession.d . Is this the right way to go? I'm going to try it out.

Edited July 7, 2005 by Lärs

[Lärs]

Well, that did not work. Can anybody help me? Any help I can get on this matter is greatly appreciated. For the record, I am using Mandrake 10.1 OE, with a 2.6 kernel. Thanks.

Edited July 7, 2005 by Lärs