On Wed, 10 May 2000, N Sakthivel wrote:
>
> Hai,
>
> I have some problem while running X-windows. The problem is
>
> 1. After starting "startx", within a minute or whenever an xterm is opened
> and a line is typedor any other GUI application is started, the sysetm
> hangs. No response from Keyboard as well as mouse. Can any one say why?
use Ctrl-Alt-BS (back-space) to kill the X server, at least the system
won't remain hung.
Probably the wrong parameter is given to xinit .
startx is a script that sets the environment and calls xinit with the
proper paramters. xinit is a wrapper for running the X server.
I suggest you to read /usr/X11R6/bin/startx as wel as `man xinit` and `man
X` to get whatyou need for debigging this.
Anyway - as for my guess:
if the cliemnt parameter to xinit does not begin with "/" then xinit
treats it as an argument for xterm, and runs xterm with that argumentas
the only client of the X server. Since no window manager s running the
xterm simply sits in the top left corner, and focus is simply in the wndow
pointed by the cursor.
You should have a look at startx to see exactly what parametrs are given
to xinit (the client arguments), but usually those ome either from
$HOME/.xinitrc or from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc . try renaming .xinitrc from
your home dir, for instance.
> The machine configuration is
>
>
> 1. Pentium II with 64MB RAM with cyrrus logic 3264 card.
>
> 2. RedHat 5.2 is running.
HTH
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Tzafrir Cohen
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