On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:56:26 -0500
"Raistlin Mage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi !
> I'm running Red Hat 8 on VMWare and thanks to the absymal performance
> of KDE/GNOME on my system I've been playing with other wm. I'm looking
> at Blackbox now but I have lots of trouble with it.
> I managed to config & make etc it just fine but when I try to run
> 'exec blackbox' my entire session crashes ie i'm back at a login
> screen. If I run just 'blackbox' I get an cannot access desktop error.
> Similar problem to what I had with ratpoison.
>
> Any ideas suggestions ?
> (I've been throwing lots of packages and tarballs at my system trying
> to get it to a useable place quickly. I'm guessing that something I
> did might have screwed things up. Anybody know of a good place to go
> to check X settings from the bottom up ? strange thing is that
> Gnome/KDE/TWM and FWM work just fine.)
You should create a .xinitrc file on your home directory, with the line
exec blackbox
inside, then start with startx
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