Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 17:01:44 GMT From: "Greg W" <redhat_list@hotmail.com> To: onemo@jps.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken X and window managers Message-ID: <19991014170145.53449.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>From: Michael Oski <onemo@jps.net> >OK, here's a few things to try, in order to break down where the failure >is. > >Since X appears to be "basically" functional (you can open xterm), let's >try to >get completely rid of the GNOME/KDE stuff and verify X really IS ok. Go >into >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and vi Xsetup_0. It should have the following 3 >lines: > >#!/bin/sh ># $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $ >xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed >-exitOnFail Yes, exactly >Comment out any other lines (not sure if GNOME/KDE put stuff in here). >Next, go >into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm and vi system.xsm. It should have the >following: > >! $XConsortium: system.xsm,v 1.5 94/12/27 17:57:25 mor Exp $ >twm >smproxy >xterm > Again yes exactly >Again, comment out any additional entries. Finally, go to your home >directory >and rename any .Xsession or .Xstartup files (I usually append a -orig) and >start xdm in non-deamon mode with the following: > >xdm -nodeamon Ok fires up here > >This should start X and produce a login screen. Once logged in, the default >XFree86 window manager twm will start and launch several xterms. I get session menu, and can only choose default/failsafe or cancel, of course these dont give an xterm, I hit failsafe and i see a small white box with Console log for... and the background, thats it In one of >them, try some other x-based -- but not GNOME/KDE-based apps. If you can >launch >xclock, xman, xlsfonts, netscape, etc. Then X is ok. Exiting the xterm >titled >Login will shutdown that session. You can then [Ctrl][Alt][F1] and >[Ctrl][c] >the xdm command. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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