Re: Initializing X clients
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
>
> I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
> didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did
> work--sort of.
>
> When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get is a black
> rectangle in upper left 2/3 of screen with a bash prompt. That sounds
> good, but everything else is bad:
>
> 1. The rest of the screen is trash background (a rough blend of colors
> rather than (default?) blue. Shouldn't the terminal have been left
> the remaining background intact?
>
> 2. The terminal has none of the features I'd normally expect a
> terminal window to have, such as a window frame. That may be
> because I've no window manager running yet.
>
> 3. The insertion point of the prompt is not a solid rectangle, but an
> empty rectangle. Any keyboard input cause the prompt to disappear,
> although the black rectangle remains.
>
> Interesting. I've no idea what it all means.
>
> Haines
>
sounds like X is running but no window manager or desktop manager.
-K
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