Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:

> On 16 Apr 2006, John Fry wrote:
> > Jan Schledermann <spamtrap@schledermann.org> writes:
> > 
> > > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET:
> > > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again.
> > > In order to get the resolution right though, I had to
> > > (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get a
> > > fresh configuration file. 
> > 
> > Yes, that worked for me too.  I had to select a couple of the higher
> > resolutions during dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg so that it wouldn't
> > give me 800x600.  Now everything works fine.
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
> 
> Having just reinstalled xorg and reconfigured, I now have a working X
> but only with twm. How can I get icewm to work again is the really
> interesting question.
> 
> Anthony

If you use startx, then create .xinitrc in your home dir and put 
'exec icewm-session' in it. This should do it.

HTH
Andrei
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