Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:10:44 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! my wm just went awol from X! Message-ID: <20030111041044.GA30035@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20030111013627.GB87427@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030110061736.GA7080@keyslapper.org> <20030111013627.GB87427@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 01/11/03 12:06 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey sat at the `puter and typed:
> > <SNIP>
>
> This is the first time I've ever heard of a file called .Xclients. I
> thought there must have been a gap in my education and went to RTFM.
> No mention of .Xclients. I grepped the entire X11R6 source trees. No
> mention of .Xclients. I googled and got only 5,780 hits, most in
> Spanish or Dutch. From what I can tell, .Xclients is a Red Hat-ism
> that is used by some other script, possibly .xinitrc.
Yes, one of those things I carried over when I upgraded to FreeBSD.
Sorry, I should have mentioned that.
> > I can't find any docs on it. Manpages aren't much help either.
>
> Read startx(1) and xinit(1) if you're starting X from a shell, and
> xdm(1) if you're using xdm. The startup files are .xinitrc and
> .xsession respectively, and have been for at least ten years.
I read those, and they did help some. I managed to parse out those
things I really wanted from my .Xclients and put them into the
.xinitrc. That got me as far as the window manager starting up.
> > And since I can't get anythign running in X, I can't get a browser
> > up to go to xfree86.org and see. Hell, I like the TTY terminals for
> > some things, but even Mutt is kindof a pain there.
>
> You can always start things manually from a vty:
>
> xterm &
>
> That should at least get you started.
Yup. I finally figured that one out <Slap to the forehead>.
> It would be interesting to know:
Sorry, more stuff I should have included . . .
> 1. What window manager are you using?
fvwm2 - just upgraded it to fvwm2.4.14
> 2. How are you starting X?
xdm thru /etc/ttys
> 3. What's in your .xinitrc/.xsession?
.xsession
-------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
# preferred desktop
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY
xset b 0 0 0
xset s noblank
xset m 5 4
xset r rate 300 30
xmodmap -e "clear Mod5"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-command -exit
/usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver &
xhost localhost
echo " \
\
\
" >> .FVWM-errors
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 2>> .FVWM-errors
-------------------------
This has always worked. Now it won't. All I get in ~/.FVWM-errors is
Abort trap
for everytime I try to exec a command.
I've also been on the fvwm users mailing list about this, but no one
seems to have the answer yet.
Thanks for your time
Lou
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