Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:53:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: glassdude45@yahoo.com (Frank Griffith) Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading X Issue Message-ID: <200708091953.l79JrbbD065041@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <480873.46143.qm@web51302.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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> Sorry to be such a pain...I guess my lack of knowledge on the subject leaves me knowing just enough to be dangerous.
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> When I build a new server and run Xorg -configure and then run startx, I get three white windows with green frames. I'm not sure if this is what you're calling xterm but that is the file I run when I want to create a new window. When this is running there is no /$HOME/.xinitrc file present...which would load KDE like an older system I used to run.
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> After I upgraded xorg, it crashed and went back to a text console. So I erased /etc/x11/xorg.conf and /root/xorg.conf.new. I then ran Xorg -configure and then ran startx. I then got a complete white screenon the monitor and could see the mouse moving around but no little white/green windows and I couldn't type anything to launch an application.
Maybe he's talking about "twm"?
(From twm(1) )
This program is usually started by the user's session manager or
startup script. When used from xdm(1) or xinit(1) without a session
manager, twm is frequently executed in the foreground as the last
client. When run this way, exiting twm causes the session to be termi-
nated (i.e., logged out).
Try creating a ".xinitrc" in your directory with the line "exec twm" and
see if it results in what you want.
Tuc
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