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Different results on different window managers?

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Hi there!

Today, I installed oolite 1.75.3 on Ubuntu Oneiric. It seems to work fine in the Unity window manager / desktop, but when I use XMonad (which I’d rather like), I get the splash screen and maybe a flash of the “Load previous commander?” screen, then only black. Could someone please point me to the stuff I have to configure for oolite to work in XMonad?

Thanks a lot :)
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Re: Different results on different window managers?

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Hi Markus. I just wanted to say Welcome - but to say - unfortunately - I can't help - I've resisted upgrading my Ubuntu Box - I'm still on Karmic - so the new graphics environment is still a mystery to me.

However, there's a few Linux guru's on the board, so hopefully you'll get an answer soon.
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Re: Different results on different window managers?

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You're getting flickering and then black, yes? I used to have a similar problem on Ubuntu. Try resizing or maximising the window and you should hopefully manage to get it to work - that always worked for me when I was running Unity. I've found that Oneiric is worse for that than the Natty was for me.

Oddly enough, I get it when running Unity and Ubuntu, but not when I'm using Lubuntu, which I think uses Openbox as the window manager.
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Re: Different results on different window managers?

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Hi!

Thanks for your warm welcome, DaddyHoggy :)

And @M. de Fug: That did the trick :) strange… Thanks a lot.

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