Re: Newbie boo boo
> Valid xdm at boot. GNU/Linux login screen. Once logged in it kicks
> me back to a textured screen with a mouse curser to play with but nothing
> else. ^alt bksp takes me back to the GUI log in screen. ^alt F1 takes me
> to a console with no error messages. When I log on there (as root) and
> enter startx: "Fatal server error. Server is already active for display 0.
> If the is server is no longer running remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again".
Which is true since you do have an X server up already. Just press Alt-F7 to
get back to X. And in general you shouldn't be doing this with root. Make a
user account and use that instead.
You can't shutdown the X server because you're using xdm, which restarts X
when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp. If you want to stop xdm from starting
automatically, either remove the xdm package, or do "update-rc.d -f xdm
remove"
To get things to start when X fires up, put the commands in .xinitrc in your
home directory. For example, to get xterm and window maker started, do
xterm &
exec wmaker
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Don't let your sanity stand in your way
Andrew Chung -- ac111@cornell.edu
http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/
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