Upgrading X Issue

[Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET]

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> Sorry to be such a pain...I guess my lack of knowledge on the subject leaves me knowing just enough to be dangerous.
> 
> When I build a new server and run Xorg -configure and then run startx, I get three white windows with green frames. I'm not sure if this is what you're calling xterm but that is the file I run when I want to create a new window. When this is running there is no /$HOME/.xinitrc file present...which would load KDE like an older system I used to run.
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> After I upgraded xorg, it crashed and went back to a text console. So I erased /etc/x11/xorg.conf and /root/xorg.conf.new. I then ran Xorg -configure and then ran startx. I then got a complete white screenon the monitor and could see the mouse moving around but no little white/green windows and I couldn't type anything to launch an application.


	Maybe he's talking about "twm"?

	(From twm(1) )
       This program is usually  started  by  the  user's  session  manager  or
       startup  script.   When  used from xdm(1) or xinit(1) without a session
       manager, twm is frequently executed  in  the  foreground  as  the  last
       client.  When run this way, exiting twm causes the session to be termi-
       nated (i.e., logged out).



	Try creating a ".xinitrc" in your directory with the line "exec twm" and
see if it results in what you want.

				Tuc