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Re: Window Manager doesn't start



On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to
> reason listed below) and can't remember how to get vim to wrap.
> Sorry.

'gq<action>', so 'gqip' will wrap the current paragraph, for instance.

> Don't know what has happened.  Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday.
> But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried
> kde, gnome, blackbox).  X itself starts, I get the nasty nvidia logo
> splash screen, but then it shuts down - and this with root too.  Why has
> it started messing me around?

Is .xinitrc broken? Try putting a simple 'xterm' at the top and then
running the rest by hand to see where it breaks.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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