tags 352127 unreproducible moreinfo thanks On Thu, Feb 9, 2006 at 21:42:48 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > Package: xbase-clients > Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 > Severity: important > > I can unable to use startx or xinit to start an X session with a terminal > emulator as the client. The command I am using is 'startx xterm'. > > With xterm, the window appears but a shell is never run. The mouse > cursor flickers when it hovers over the xterm window. > > When I try rxvt, the entire window flickers constantly; when I try > gnome-terminal, the window appears and then disappears and the X session > ends. > Hi Sam, are you still able to reproduce this? I just tested "startx /usr/bin/xterm -- :1" and it works fine for me. You need to provide the full path to the client for startx to work. Cheers, Julien
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