Re: Window Manager doesn't start
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > 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.
Ha! Putting exec xterm in .xinitrc worked, as did exec kde2.
Normally I just have a .xsession with:
#exec blackbox
#exec ion
exec kde2
#exec wmaker
and nothing else - should I just use .xinitrc instead then? And why has
.xsession suddenly starting playing around?
Many thanks,
Harvey
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