Re: Making X work properly
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:08:20AM +0100, Thomas Sjölin wrote:
> I am wondering a little. I have made an installation of the latest
> potato-bootfloppies for Amiga. Now, the thing is, X doesn't work very well
> at all.
> I can hardly use it since the mousepointer moves a few millimeters, then
> freezes for a few seconds and then loosens up so I can move it a bit again
> before it freezes again. Why is that and what can I do to fix it.
Try to open an xterm and run "top". I would bet that, right after the
installation, a lot of processes are runing to update manpages and stuff.
When I want to log on to my amiga via ssh right after it booted, it also
takes ages until the connection is there. A telnet connection works
immediately... remember, m68k machines not that fast...
Or maybe you have a problem with gpm?
> Next thing, how do I configure a default window manager? I get some hints
> from man startx but there I cannot find out HOW to write in the
> configfile(s).
I do it in ~/.xsession but there seem to be some system settings in
/etc/X11/Xsession
#!/bin/bash
[stuff]
eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add </dev/null &
[stuff]
# Start some shelltools and the window manager
if test -x /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2; then
/usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/fvwm95 ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/fvwm95 &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/fvwm ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/fvwm &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/twm ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/twm &
fi
[stuff]
exec xterm -ut -T login -n login -fg Black -bg LightSteelBlue \
-geometry 80x24+0+83 -ls
That works fine for me, also allowing me nice ssh logins, but you might want
to check out the debian defaults, maybe I am missing much functionality.
Christian
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