Re: [newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote:
> Simon you are a genius !!!
>
> We are getting closer.
>
> I have enlightement window manager installed but maybe the /etc/X11/Xsession
> is not invoking it ...
>
> When I launch xinit (not startx) as a matter of fact I see the X desktop
> with just a window up at left and no window manager.
>
> Unfortunately as soon as I touch the mouse the pointer starts behaving very
> erratically .... (gpm is not installed) ...
>
> I tried "reading" the Xsession file but it is really too cryptical for me
> ... btw it is very different from the
> /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/examples/xsession.gz file !!!
>
> Any help for me ?
>
> Again thank you very much. I'm really stuck !!
>
> Bob
>
Actually, it was just mentioned on the list that there was a
bug in xfree86-common. Check your /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start
file and if there are double-quotes around $realstartup, remove them.
Simon
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