Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:34:45 GMT From: Eric Radman <ericshane@eradman.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/175378: X won't accept keyboard or mouse input if .xinitrc is empty Message-ID: <201301171734.r0HHYjsA049593@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201301171740.r0HHe0nn006486@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 175378
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: X won't accept keyboard or mouse input if .xinitrc is empty
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 17 17:40:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Eric Radman
>Release: 9.1
>Organization:
eradman.com
>Environment:
FreeBSD T30b 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
If .xinitrc only contains 'exec ${windowmanager}' X will not accept keyboard input and there's no mouse pointer. I tried cwm, dwm, and twm.
>How-To-Repeat:
echo "exec twm" > ~/.xinitrc
startx
>Fix:
Start another application before launching the window manager
echo "xterm &" > ~/.xinitrc
echo "exec twm" >> ~/.xinitrc
startx
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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