Upgrading X Issue
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
ml at t-b-o-h.net
Thu Aug 9 19:53:44 UTC 2007
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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.
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> 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
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