Re: xdm&fvwm

[Greg Green <greg@advantagecom.com>]

Thanks Colin and Robert.  These are not the only problems I am having, so I
decided to just re-install. This should clear up any problems!
I need the practice anyway.

Thanks,
Greg Green


Colin R. Telmer wrote:

> 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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