From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 00:40:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27838 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27829 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA08361; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:40:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with ctwm In-Reply-To: <19980401170413.22355@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Apr 1998 arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke wrote: > Hello. I have recently installed FBSD and it works well on my home > computer. However, X sometimes does strange things. > > 1. Sometimes, when I start X using the startx program, the session just > hangs. All I see is dotted gray background. The window manager does not > start and the mouse pointer does not move. I have to kill the session with > CTRL-ALT-BKSPC If I then rerun startx, the session works just fine. Try hopping back to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1) and check the wm's status with ps. It may be waiting on a nameserver lookup. > 2. If I run xdm from rc.local, it starts up OK, but then after I log in, > the window manager does not start, and the screen just has a gray > background, and at the top, there is a patch of distortion. For fear of > damaging my monitor, I kill this session with CRTL-ALT-BKSPC So I cannot > run xdm. Make sure that your startup info is in ~/.xsession rather than ~/.xinitrc for xdm logins. Blowing up modern smart monitors with X is virtually impossible -- they'll just turn themselves off. You have to worry about the really old iron. > I have edited the system-wide xinitrc file to contain only 2 lines at the > end: I would suggest making these changes to your personal ~/.xinitrc rather than the system default -- this way if ctwm blows up you can fall back to the default twm to fix yourself. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message