Windowmanagers other than KDE or GNOME can't be started

Support knowledgebase (mjb_wm_nostart)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 7.2
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Symptom:

You try to start a windowmanager other than KDE2 or GNOME and it doesn't start.
If you use the graphical login the login screen appears again.

Maybe you see an error message like:

[FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: WARNING -- can't get fontset fixed, trying 'fixed'
[FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]; ERROR -- can't get fontset 'fixed'

Cause:

These windowmanagers dont't support the setting "en_GB@euro" for the environment variable "$LANG".

Solution:

Insert "export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1" into your "~/.bashrc" and the problem should disappear.
Keywords: WINDOWMANAGER, KDE, GNOME, FVWM, FVWM2, TWM, BLACKBOX, KDM

Categories: Window Manager

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