Re: xdm&fvwm

["Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote:

> I am new to Debian Linux and I am having problems with xdm and fvwm.
> When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at
> login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4.  Now, I
> am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the
> /etc/inittab.  I am obviously missing some key point, can anyone help?

To get xdm going:
1) change /etc/X11/config to start xdm (i.e. remove the no- ). Mine looks
   like

# This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System.
# For a description of the meanings of the flags, see
# /usr/doc/X11/debian.README
no-run-xconsole
obey-nologin
allow-user-resources
allow-user-modmap
allow-user-xsession
allow-failsafe
start-xdm
xdm-start-server

2) Make sure an X server is specified in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers something
   like
# xbase and xserver configuration scripts.
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

3) Edit any other files that you wich to customize in /etc/X11/xdm
4) run /etc/init.d/xdm start

I may have forgotten something, but that should work. 

> Also, when I startx manually, the system will not use my .fvwmrc.  I get
> too many errors to list here, but all I did was copy the
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm to my $HOME/.fvwmrc and tried to add
> an additional xterm at start-up, and change to setroot color to solid
> SteelBlue.
> I don't believe these changes made any impact because when I keep the
> defaults in my .fvwmrc, and try and refresh fvwm, I get the same errors.

I use fvwm2 but don't really know what could be wrong. Could you list the
first 10 or 20 lines of errors? Also, is there a chance that you are using
an old fvwm script with fvwm2? You can convert it with
/usr/doc/fvwm2/utils/fvwmrc_convert

Let me know if that helps. Cheers, Colin.

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