Re: startx problem - one step closer

[Dave Bacon <dbacon@mail.owls.lib.wi.us>]

Thanks to Jaume for the very helpful reply.

After following the suggestion listed below I am now able to bring up a graphical display,
but it is only an "x"(mouse cursor) on top of a coarse gray back ground.  I am not sure,
but I think I still may need to specify which Window Manager to use.  Am I on the right
track?  If so, how do I tell X which window manager to bring up by default.

Thanks again for your help

Dave Bacon

Jaume Teixi wrote:

> Dave Bacon wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect.  And now when I
> > run "startx" I receive the following error messages.  Can you help?
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > /etc/X11/X is not executable
>
> ls -l /etc/X11/X
> and look at the file that X is linked to, then:
> find / -name _file_
> ln -s path_to_file /etc/X11/X
>
> have luck !
> jaume.
>
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