On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:05 am, Christian Convey wrote:
Also, I stopped using xfs, based on a recommendation from Andy Goth, just to take one more potential problem out of the situation. I now explicitely use font paths, and I verified they work ok before I started installing the new version of XF86.
We might want to come back and debug the xfs problem.
If you want to, I'm willing.
Problem 2: When I then rebooted, X came up, but not in a good way. My background was a small black/white cross-hatch, and I had a very plain console in the top-left corner. The mouse worked, but they keyboard didn't. I couldn't even alt-shift-f1.
Alt+Shift+F1 probably did exactly what it was supposed to do, that is, nothing. Try Alt+CTRL+F1. :^)
Sorry - pretend I said "Alt+CTRL+F1", cuz that's what I actually tried. My bad.
Run more programs, including a window manager, from the xterm (twm is great if you like ugly displays, heh). Use "xsetroot -solid steelblue" for a prettier background. Don't forget to start long-running programs backgrounded by putting a & at the end of the command line. You can also put this stuff into an .xinitrc in your home directory or into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (or even /usr/X11R6/bin/startx if you really want to). It's been so long since I used xdm that I can't really help with it.
I'd read the logs and the rest of the email, but it's time for mass. See you all later.
Thanks for the tip, but how can I run something from the xterm when my keystrokes are totally ignored?
Thanks again for working through this with me.
- Christian
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