Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
>> After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and
>> typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager.
>> There's probably more to it, or my install has gone bad in some other
>> way.

[snip]

>What I suspect is that there's a problem launching your preferred
>window manager.

I'd tend to agree. The contents of .xsession-errors in your home
directory might be useful here?

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]