Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:17:36 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Help! my wm just went awol from X! Message-ID: <20030110061736.GA7080@keyslapper.org>
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Ok, this one is pretty frustrating. We had a power cut tonight, and my machine rebooted. It came up quite nicely, better than I expected, considering I had recently updated some of the startup packages, and hadn't yet had a chance to power cycle it myslef. One problem. Now, when I log into X, my window manager won't come up. I get the dull grey grid with an 'X' mouse pointer, and the console, but no menu, terminal, nothing. My ~/.Xclients hasn't changed, and that's where I've always started fvwm2 from I even had it redirect error output to a file so I could see what was the problem when something didn't work. Now, I see nothing. The ~/.FVWM-errors file never gets created, so it looks like .Xclients never gets executed. Did the XFree86 desktop init file change? I can't find any docs on it. Manpages aren't much help either. And since I can't get anythign running in X, I can't get a browser up to go to xfree86.org and see. Hell, I like the TTY terminals for some things, but even Mutt is kindof a pain there. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org "Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me." -- J. R. R. Tolkien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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