From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 20:10:46 2003 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 7FD3837B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:10:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02C143ED8 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:10:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leblanc@keyslapper.org) Received: from keyslapper.org ([68.160.2.29]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030111041041.KDWE23484.out001.verizon.net@keyslapper.org> for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:10:41 -0600 Received: from keyslapper.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keyslapper.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0B4Aih7030209 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:10:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from leblanc@keyslapper.org) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by keyslapper.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h0B4AiA6030208 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:10:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:10:44 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! my wm just went awol from X! Message-ID: <20030111041044.GA30035@keyslapper.org> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20030110061736.GA7080@keyslapper.org> <20030111013627.GB87427@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030111013627.GB87427@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH LOGIN at out001.verizon.net from [68.160.2.29] at Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:10:41 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01/11/03 12:06 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > 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 . > 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 -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers. -- Tom Lehrer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message