Your X configuration is working. You aren't running any X clients
(programs which run under X Windows). What you see is the default X
background and cursor.
To add clients, take a look at your /etc/X11/Xsession file, or
~/.xsession. You can also launch your own clients from a console, say
virtual terminal 1.
>From your X session:
<alt><ctrl><F1>
# You are now at virtual console 1. Presumably this is where you
# launched X from, if not, log in as the same user your X session is
# running from. If you have another console session, you should be
# able to find it by pressing <ctrl><F[2-6]> -- the "Control" key,
# and any of function keys 2-6.
xterm -display :1 & # launches an xterm window.
<ctrl><F7> # should bring you back to your X session.
>From here you can run additional X clients, including if you chose a
window manager such as fvwm, windowmaker (wmaker), KDE (startkde), Gnome
(gnome-session), etc.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:10:55AM +1000, Lee wrote:
> When I try to 'startx' my X program will start, however it gets to a grey
> screen and has a cross in the middle of it, and it pauses, ive tryed various
> setups in xf86config. and nothing seems to work..
> I use a nVidia TNT2 Riva 32meg AGP, something along the lines of that..
> Also I use a USB mouse, does linux support that?
>
> Any help will be appreciated..
>
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