Ken Januski wrote: > Progress! But still not there. I've used the various suggestions from this > list over the last day to see if I could solve my problem. I've been > somewhat confused by suggestions of using both dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-common and X -configure. I'm still not exactly sure of the > difference but by using X -configure and then manually editing its results I > found that my mouse settings should be /dev/psaux and protocol of PS/2. I was wondering about that, but I figured you knew what kind of mouse you had. If the mouse is plugged into the PS/2-style mouse port, then it's /dev/psaux. I have an old machine with a serial mouse, so that one actually is /dev/ttyS0, but newer machines are pretty much always either /dev/psaux or whatever one does for a USB mouse. > One problem remains: when I run startx everything seems to go well in the > sense of no errors in console. But it always ends with "waiting for server > to shut down." So I think server gets started then immediately shuts down. I > seem to recall that this happened when I first got X working under version 3 > two years ago but I can't seem to fix it. I suspect it may be in my > /etc/X11/Xsession file but am not sure. I believe all that has in it now is > "windowmaker &". Really? Where did this file come from? There's a standard Debian Xsession file that has a variety of tests to see if you want to start Gnome, or KDE, or just run your ~/.xsession. Anyway, the problem you're seeing now is that when Xsession exits, X shuts down, so the last thing it does should be to exec your window manager or desktop environment. You can change "windowmaker &" to "exec windowmaker" (without a trailing &, because you want to wait until it terminates) to fix the problem. Then, when you want to exit X, just exit windowmaker. Craig
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