Hi Nico, thank you sooo.......oo much for the hint ! although it didnt work directly after these three steps, by following your track, I found the key is in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. in its last section are these lines:
twm & <---the default wm setup during install xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & <--- the clock at upper right conner xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & <------- the stupid large window xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & <------- the one I could use exec xterm -geometry 80x60+0+0 -name login <-- the one with login name I replaced these with blackbox & exec xterm -geometry 80x20+0+0 -name login and it works ! Linux and you all are great ! I have learned so much from all your replies. Ben Nicola Girardi wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > | [...] > > I'm going to teach you how to set your favourite window manager (which > seems to be blackbox). > > (1) Reset all the changes you've made to Xsession. > > (2) rm -r /etc/X11/window-managers > > (3) ln -sf `which blackbox` /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > > Then launch startx. > If it doesn't work, check if you have .xinitrc or .xsession in your > home directory. If so, erase them and try again to start X. > > If it still doesn't work, reply to me and I'll try to fix the problem. > For me it works out this way... > > -- > Nick
