Fulko van Westrenen writes: -> For one or another strange reason initx fails to read ~/.xinitrc Does -> anyone know what the reason can be? All configurations look normal to -> me. My .fvwmrc is read without any problem. /etc/X11/config looks -> good to me. Do I need to check any other file?
First, you should probably be using startx, rather than xinit. startx is configured to do things 'right' under the Debian system. Second, does your /etc/X11/config contain the line allow-user-xsession? If not, startx will only allow the system Xsession. -> Another problem is that I fail to set the background color -> for X. xrootcoIor -solid "SteelBlue" (I hape I didn't make a typo here, I'm -> not at my machine) doesn't do anything. This should be xsetroot -solid SteelBlue -> When I make one shell su root, I sometimes don't get the -> cursor back in other the shells when I've done something as root, for -> instance firing up a ppp connection, or running ip-up when that -> failed (often). The only solution I found is restarting fvwm. Any -> ideas? Sounds like a bug in fvwm. I seem to remember having problems with fvwm freezing on me. About the only suggestion I can give here is to upgrade to fvwm2. fvwm is dead, and besides, fvwm2 is much more nicely configurable. -> I would like to install GLUT (the OpenGL toolbox). For this I need to -> make a makefile with imake, and imake requires cpp. Unfortunately cpp -> conflicts with gcc (Debian 1.1.11). Has anyone a suggestion how to -> solve this problem, or did anyone manage to install GLUT bypassing -> this problem? gcc includes cpp, so this should work OK. -> As a last question: On all Unix/Linux systems I worked on there was -> a dos-unix conversion program (todos/fromdos, dos2unix,...) I haven't -> been able to find it in Debian. Is this correct? For me at least, todos is in the sysutils package (at least, the one in unstable) HTH -Larry -- Larry Daffner | Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ Hare's Law: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
