Sounds like a different window manager to me. The crash is probably
not related. X seems to default to fvwm in redhat. Was that installed?
maybe it is kde. It has a bar, as does wfvwm95.
Thomas Bryan wrote:
>
> Okay. I feel like I'm going crazy. I've installed RedHat 5.2 on three
> PCs recently (two via FTP and one from the CD). Just this week, I did
> another install from CD. Everything seemed to go fine. I logged in as
> root to set up a user account. I was going to use RedHat's configuration
> tool. I started up X, and the screen looks much different. There's a
> weird little tool bar down at the bottom which wasn't there on the other
> three installs. Where did *that* come from? Does anyone know whether the
> RedHat install looks for updates over the Internet or something?
>
> The reason it bugs me is that this machine has identical video hardware to
> one of the others on which I installed RedHat Linux. I used the same
> XF86Config file for both machines. The previous machine was fine. On
> this machine (with the new, different-looking desktop), X hangs within
> about a minute. It actually hangs so badly that I can't even kill the X
> server with CTL+ALT+BKSPC. Same install CDs. Same XF86Config files.
> Different results. Now, it's possible that the hanging and the new
> desktop are unrelated, but it still bugs me that 3 installs look identical
> while the fourth looks different.
>
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> Tom Bryan
> Applied Research Laboratories
> University of Texas at Austin
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