Screwed XF86 after killing

2000-08-12 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hi.  I had to kill XF86 and now most programs don't even run (they open and
close inmediatelly).  Is there any way to fix XF86  or do I have to
reisnatll it?  If I have to reinstall, do my X programs lose their
configuration?  Thanks..



Re: Screwed XF86 after killing

2000-08-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 07:02:26PM -, Ronald Castillo wrote:
 Hi.  I had to kill XF86 and now most programs don't even run (they
 open and close inmediatelly).  Is there any way to fix XF86  or do I
 have to reisnatll it?  If I have to reinstall, do my X programs lose
 their configuration?  Thanks..

If'n you killed X with Crtl-Alt-Bkspc, I'd think everything would be
okay.  You might stop any display manager (xdm, gdm, wdm, ...), stop all
font servers (xfs, xfstt, xfs-xtt) then restart the the font servers.
Then go in to /tmp and remove .X11-unix and .ICE-unix .  Then try
restarting with startx.  You shouldn't need to reinstall X, but maybe
you could tell us why you had to kill it.  

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