From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 20:01:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4152516A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from utopia.poly.edu (utopia.poly.edu [128.238.3.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABC743D48 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from njean01@utopia.poly.edu) Received: from localhost (njean01@localhost) by utopia.poly.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA27662 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:01:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:01:24 -0500 (EST) From: Nathanael JeanFrancois To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: 8 virtual screens defined, but can only use console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:01:28 -0000 Hello, I've come across a bit of a snag with X. when i start x nothing i type shows up, they all somehow manage to find their way to the console. i can start applications like gkrellm, eterm and firefox fine it's just that i can't type in them, the console interprets everything as a command of course and spits out unknown command messages when i end the x-session. i looked at my /etc/ttys and confirmed that i didn't mess with it, i didn't do anything weird to x. so i have no idea how to even try to start tracking down the problem. i'm using the fluxbox window manager. if anyone has come across this before or would like more information in helping me track this down please let me know. yes, i looked at the mailing list archives for freebsd-questions,current, and the xfree86 archive also and couldn't find anything similar to this. i am running a current build from friday, but strangely enough the problem started right before i redid world on friday thank you, Nathanael Jean-Francois