At present, my X server starts, but all I get is a blank blue
screen. I try to start icewm (it seems to be ready to run) by
adding an exec into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and in ~/.Xinitrc, but
nothing happens.
This should be ~/.xinitrc (all lowercase). Actually, I always put it
in
Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did
work--sort of.
When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get is a black
rectangle in upper left 2/3 of screen with a
Jaume,
You missed one of my points, which was that the command prompt of the
xterm disappeared as soon as there was keyboard input. Even the
Ctl-Alt-Backspace to close the X server causes bash to terminate. I'm
not sure bash quite made it in the first place, for the white
insertion rectangle
You missed one of my points, which was that the command prompt of the
xterm disappeared as soon as there was keyboard input. Even the
Ctl-Alt-Backspace to close the X server causes bash to terminate. I'm
not sure bash quite made it in the first place, for the white
insertion rectangle
4.- You can reconfigure the xserver at any time with
$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Sorry, I didn't realize that I'd complete this so quickly. Creating
a very elemental XF86Config did the trick, and icewm loads. Now I can
play with the configruation to see where I went wrong.
Thanks.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did
work--sort of.
When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get is a
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:31:40AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
| Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
|
| I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
| didn't work.
Check ~/.xsession-errors for error messages.
BTW, the
exec icewm || exec xterm
didn't work because
Thanks for the input. I was able to get x running by rebuilding the
configuration file. Somehow, I had managed to gum things up. Tomorrow
I figure out what I did wrong, but meanwhile at least I get my window
manager to display. My mouse is working and I can input keyboard into
the xterm, so I'm
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