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From: Anil John <ajohn@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
To: "'Gary Palmer'" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: Missing File - libc.s0.3.0 - help! 
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:07:48 -0400
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Gary Palmer[SMTP:gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG] wrote:
   >Anil John wrote in message ID
   ><01BB6786.67F4DDC0@ppp93.bcpl.lib.md.us>:
   >> Absolutely right... I was running fvwm from the 2.2 snap CD.  I fixed 
that
   >> (went and got the fvwm from the 2.1R CD), but I still get a message:
   >
   >> fvwm: can't open display.
   >
   >Are you running the `fvwm' command when X is running? Sound
   >suspiciously like you're not. You need to be running the X server for
   >this to work. Note: if you just type `startx', you'll end up with the
   >`twm' window manager, so you have to create/alter your .xinitrc file
   >in order to start fvwm instead of twm.

Oops!! That was it...I just started xinit, then ran fvwm and it came up!!. 
 Are there any docs available on how to create/alter my .xinitrc file? 
 Also, where does one find this file?

Anil