Initializing X clients (Was: List mail being redirected?)

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
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

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
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

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
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

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
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

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
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.

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
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

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
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

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
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