From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 12: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f237.hotmail.com [216.32.181.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7DA914F70 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from redhat_list@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 93314 invoked by uid 0); 14 Oct 1999 18:59:48 -0000 Message-ID: <19991014185948.93312.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 203.102.191.168 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:59:47 PDT X-Originating-IP: [203.102.191.168] From: "Greg W" To: onemo@jps.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [MY] Broken X and window managers Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:59:47 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Michael Oski >OK, looks simple... In your /etc/hosts file, make sure you have the >127.0.0.1 >localhost line with your correct domain name in the fully qualified >parameter. >Mine looks like this: > ># $Id: hosts,v 1.9 1998/04/16 14:37:19 joerg Exp $ ># >127.0.0.1 localhost.one-mo.com localhost >192.168.1.1 serv01.one-mo.com serv01 > >Then in your .cshrc or .profile or .whatever-shell-you-use-startup-stuff >file >set the environment variable DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 and export it. > >That should take care of things. > >Good luck! > I suspect much more sinister error here, like a corrupted binary or something, I had localhost, but did not have in profile etc I really thank you guys for tying to help, but its got the better of me, yep I have started a fresh install, I choose kernel + X + all x libs/bin Will see what happens, some may say I dont have the patience to become an Xpert, but this was going beyond the joke for me Will report my findings :-) who knows, I may be asking for a new CD ! I dont know how many RH users are reading this, but with 3.3 is X usually as staright forward as RH (its knocked as being difficult to set x up on by some, however its always been relatively painless irrespective of wm or desktop) C ya ! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message