I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my desktop (etch) machine this
morning.
After much fiddling and reading of old messages to this list, I'm typing
this from within Xorg, but I had to uninstall --purge xlibs,
x-window-system, xbase-clients, and xserver-xorg and then reinstall, and the
current system still lacks an Xsession file (because as per messages to this
list I removed /etc/X11 before reinstalling, and no new one was made).
And the current setup won't work with xdm. The manager itself runs, but
when I enter a valid login and password, there's a bit of flickering and
then xdm restarts. Nothing useful in the logs.
I can start up with gdm, but since I don't have GNOME installed (don't like
it) I get two failure message and then the emergency xterm mode. Luckily I
can just start icewm from the xterm and use X.
And xterm itself is missing features. Under Xfree86, a ctrl-rightclick on an
xterm let me set fonts by size, to (for instance) "large" or "medium".
Under Xorg, ctrl-rightclick gives me a menu with meaningless labels of
"font1" through "font6", none of which work, along with "fontescape" and
"fontsel" (which also do nothing).
I did look at this list's messages and didn't see these particular problems
mentioned. Sorry if this is redundant. I sure hope that the upgrade
process is made less painful before etch goes stable.
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Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your
government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain
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