Ok, I'll ask the stupid question: which specific command do you use
to start up X?
If its "X" (or "XFree86", or ...) then this starts up the server only
without any clients; what you're seeing is correct.
There's usually a script called "startx" which will start the X session
along with some clients.
HTH,
Paul.
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Martin Baillie wrote:
> I recently installed slackware8 and I am having problems with the new
> version of X, whatever it is :)
>
> using XFree86 -configure it created me a pretty good config (I included
> it in this mail)
>
> It loads up the screen, and everything looks fine but nothing happens,
>all I see is a blank screen with the mouse pointer in the middle. It
> doesn't load the bottom menu etc, or the desktop if you can picture it.
>
> I also included an x.out taken from 'x -configure 2> x.out' so hopefully
> someone can spot my problem
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