Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-12 Thread Jim Varney
Brad <{HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another important change in the xfree86-common package is that all > support for the /etc/X11/window-managers file has been removed. Window > managers should now use the alternatives system. You may want to check > that the /u

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This is no longer true; Xsession no longer checks > /etc/X11/window-managers at all. You've either not updated > xfree86-common to the latest version, or didn't overwrite > /etc/X11/Xsession when you did. I believe this change occurred in > 3.3.6-4, but i coul

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-10 Thread Brad
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:16:45PM +, David Wright wrote: > > /etc/X11/window-managers takes precedence because it comes first in > /etc/X11/Xsession which contains: > (refers to ~/.xsession which I hid) > / > > if [ -e $startup ] && grep -q

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Werner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:20:37AM -0600, Brad wrote: > > > Another important change in the xfree86-common package is that all > > support for the /etc/X11/window-managers file has been removed. Window > > managers should now use the alternatives system.

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:50:20AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:07:10AM -0600, Brad wrote: > > rm /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > > ln -s /usr/bin/blackbox /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > > Isn't that backwords? no that is correct: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ l

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:07:10AM -0600, Brad wrote: > rm /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > ln -s /usr/bin/blackbox /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager Isn't that backwords? $ ln --help Usage: ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME] or: ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY > (this puts it in man

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:38:22PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > The alternatives database has no entries under x-window-manager. Which window managers do you have installed? -- finger for GPG public key. pgpeKGCAaHvqX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:21:18PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > > I checked and it is in auto. However, something puzzles me: > HAL9000:~# update-alternatives --display x-window-manager > x-window-manager - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/bin/blackbox > /etc/X11/window-managers -

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Mike Werner
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:20:37AM -0600, Brad wrote: > Another important change in the xfree86-common package is that all > support for the /etc/X11/window-managers file has been removed. Window > managers should now use the alternatives system. You may want to check > that the /usr/bin/x-window-

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Varney
On 7 Mar 00, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > > X is working. However y

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-08 Thread Brad
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > > See bug #59656 - it seems that the /etc/Xsession that gets installed > by xfree86-common 3.3.6-4 has a problem somewhere. Downgrading that > package (xfree86-common) back to 3.3.6-3 fixed it. That bug has been reassigned to xbase-c

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace >

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-07 Thread kmself
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. X is working. However your window manager or desktop (what do you usually use

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-07 Thread Brad
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace >

Potato Broke My X

2000-03-07 Thread Jim Varney
Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace to close the aborted X session. In my xsession error file it says fa