Not launching

[RatWyfe]

I tried running the program but nothing seems to happen, but when I run it in terminal it shows this happening at the end

[collinalexbell]

The first time you ran the program... how did you start it?

[RatWyfe]

Well I tried executing the matrix file, I don't think I tried anything different

[collinalexbell]

It is a window manager so it has to either be started from a TTY with startx or you have to use startx to boot a terminal (without a window manager) and run it from that terminal.

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[RatWyfe]

So I have to be in startx and use it with a tty? if so is there a certain tty that I'd need?

[Saithe6]

look up what a tty is and how to use startx

[collinalexbell]

@RatWyfe specifically, you need an X session open without window manager and then you can exec matrix. The problem is that most people can't get an X session without a wm, so they have to xstart one with the proper exec for matrix in it along with a cd.

[Saithe6]

@collinalexbell why does the cd need to be there? why can't you you just run matrix like other WMs?