Solved Graphic program without DE? AKA -Syu is your friend

I have x windows installed and working, but neither kde nor gnome will cooperate.  I just want to use handbrake to rip DVDs . I tried to run it in X but just got error messages. Is there something short of a full DE I can run To get it to work?
Tom
Last edited by Socal Tom (2013-06-29 14:03:51)

Mr.Elendig wrote:You should post the actual error messages so that we can help you fix the problem instead.
I didn't post error messages, because I didn't want to fix that problem. 
That is a very vague question.  You say you tried it "in X", do you mean you launched it from xinitrc and had no window manager running?  This will work for some programs, but be problematic for others.
Saying you "got error messages" doesn't tell us anything; what were these error messages?
Some programs will not cooperate very well with some of the lightest window managers - but in almost all cases there are work arounds to make them work, and the small wm's are maintained by small teams (or individuals) that are generally quick to fix such things once they are brought to their attention.
But if this really is some problem that requires a "full featured" window manager, you still certainly don't need a DE.  Openbox may be worth considering.  It is fully compliant with every standard relevant for window managers, and is a reparenting WM (which helps avoid some of these quirks), but is much lighter than KDE/Gnome.
What I did was  "startx", and I got the basic gray boxes and the mouse cursor...., then I attempted to start my program at the command prompt in one of the boxes.  This worked perfectly for kmttg ( Tivo manager written in java).  However it didn't work with handbrake.
I tried icewm and openbox.  Both successfully started, I used menu maker to populate the menus, and then attempted to start handbrake, but neither one opened a window with handbrake (ghb), no error messages.  Is there a log file somewhere I can check?

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