On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Ok, this one is pretty frustrating. We had a power cut tonight, and
> my machine rebooted. It came up quite nicely, better than I expected,
> considering I had recently updated some of the startup packages, and
> hadn't yet had a chance to power cycle it myslef.
>
> One problem. Now, when I log into X, my window manager won't come up.
> I get the dull grey grid with an 'X' mouse pointer, and the console,
> but no menu, terminal, nothing.
I don't use ~/.Xclients but this happens on my machine, when
the file xinitrc cannot be found or isn't configured correctly.
You could test your xinitrc by placing it in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/
(this is the default for FreeBSD 4.7)
and
startx
Hope this helps.
Uli.
> My ~/.Xclients hasn't changed, and
> that's where I've always started fvwm2 from I even had it redirect
> error output to a file so I could see what was the problem when
> something didn't work. Now, I see nothing. The ~/.FVWM-errors file
> never gets created, so it looks like .Xclients never gets executed.
>
> Did the XFree86 desktop init file change? I can't find any docs on
> it. Manpages aren't much help either. 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.
>
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Lou
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