Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:20:06 -0700 From: Michael Oski <onemo@jps.net> To: Greg W <redhat_list@hotmail.com> Cc: eirvine@tpgi.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken X and window managers Message-ID: <380602B6.16562404@jps.net> References: <19991014151839.22566.qmail@hotmail.com>
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OK, here's a few things to try, in order to break down where the failure is. Since X appears to be "basically" functional (you can open xterm), let's try to get completely rid of the GNOME/KDE stuff and verify X really IS ok. Go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and vi Xsetup_0. It should have the following 3 lines: #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $ xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail Comment out any other lines (not sure if GNOME/KDE put stuff in here). Next, go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm and vi system.xsm. It should have the following: ! $XConsortium: system.xsm,v 1.5 94/12/27 17:57:25 mor Exp $ twm smproxy xterm Again, comment out any additional entries. Finally, go to your home directory and rename any .Xsession or .Xstartup files (I usually append a -orig) and start xdm in non-deamon mode with the following: xdm -nodeamon This should start X and produce a login screen. Once logged in, the default XFree86 window manager twm will start and launch several xterms. In one of them, try some other x-based -- but not GNOME/KDE-based apps. If you can launch xclock, xman, xlsfonts, netscape, etc. Then X is ok. Exiting the xterm titled Login will shutdown that session. You can then [Ctrl][Alt][F1] and [Ctrl][c] the xdm command. Let me (us) know how this goes, then I can try to help with the next step -- what's wrong with GNOME/KDE... :-) Michael. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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