xearth doesn't do anything

[Tony Arnold]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>>>That is, I mean I see no image displayed. Perhaps the Gnome WM is
>>>covering the root window.
>>
>>same here.  I think your guess is right.
> 
> 
> After writing my email, I log out of my gnome session and for a few
> seconds, between the time gnome was off and before the gdm login
> prompt re-appeared, xearth was visible in all his splendor on my
> display in the root window.  So it works :)

You could try xearth -noroot to see what it can do in its own window!

Regards,
Tony.
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