embarassing X questions
Good evening folks! I have 3 questions that I don't see really covered in my X book. 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows managers? 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I switched VCs just to make sure I wasn't locked up :-).. The question is..how do I properly close out of X without a windows manager? 3) After X loads up, my screen is shifted one character to the left, wrapping to the right hand side of the screen...what's that all about? I'm forced to reboot to straighten it out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Actually, I have a slight correction :-) I rebooted and got the unable to find usable termcap entry error again. I had mentioned in a previous post that all I could find was a terminfo directory. Do I need to create a link to a file in this directory? And if so, what would it be? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: embarassing X questions
Christopher J. McNicholas wrote: 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows managers? http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ is a pretty good site. 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I switched VCs just to make sure I wasn't locked up :-).. The question is..how do I properly close out of X without a windows manager? The magic keystroke (for XFree86) is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. 3) After X loads up, my screen is shifted one character to the left, wrapping to the right hand side of the screen...what's that all about? I'm forced to reboot to straighten it out! Ya got me on that one. I usually just tweaked the setting on the monitor itself. HTH, Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: embarassing X questions
Subject: Re: embarassing X questions Date: Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 07:52:48PM -0800 In reply to:Keith Beattie Quoting Keith Beattie([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christopher J. McNicholas wrote: 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows managers? http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ is a pretty good site. 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I switched VCs just to make sure I wasn't locked up :-).. The question is..how do I properly close out of X without a windows manager? The magic keystroke (for XFree86) is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. 3) After X loads up, my screen is shifted one character to the left, wrapping to the right hand side of the screen...what's that all about? I'm forced to reboot to straighten it out! Ya got me on that one. I usually just tweaked the setting on the monitor itself. After you have a Win manager installed, run xvidtune to adjust the screen problem. Should have done that in XF86Setup tho..?? -- In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: embarassing X questions
Hi! Christopher J. McNicholas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows managers? http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I switched VCs just to make sure I wasn't locked up :-).. The question is..how do I properly close out of X without a windows manager? CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE (if not disabled) terminate the process exec'ed from .xsession or /etc/X11/Xsession eg: type exit in an xterm. or switch to a VC an kill the Xserver or the process that was exec'ed from xsession Regards Rainer --- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
