Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 17:04:13 +0300 From: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help with ctwm Message-ID: <19980401170413.22355@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>
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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. 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. 3. The third strange thing is with ctwm, the optional window manager that is supplied on the CDROM. After it has started up, I left-click to get the programs menu. If I then select a program (eg. xterm, xcalc, xmag, xv), the mouse pointer changes to a clock, and it does nothing, even if I wait for many minutes. If I then click both mouse buttons (I have enabled emulate 3 button mouse in X config) the selected program starts instantly. If I then close this program and restart it from the menu, it starts OK. Any subsequent programs start just fine. Only the first instance behaves in this strange way. Is there anything I might have misconfigured here? I have edited the system-wide xinitrc file to contain only 2 lines at the end: xclock & ctwm My hardware is Pentium 166, Cirrus Logic 5430 2 MB SVGA card, microsoft compatible 2 button mouse, EIDE 2.1 G samsung hard disk -- Anand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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