Nagging X problem

Thomas E. Dukes edukes at alltel.net
Sat Sep 25 18:19:24 UTC 2004



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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of ne...
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:12 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Nagging X problem
> 
> On Sep 25, 2004 at 13:59, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Sep 25, 2004 at 13:22, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing rage wrote:
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >The video card is a matrox millenium g200.
> >> >
> >> >Here's the log. You asked for it.  :-)
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >> I only saw a couple of warnings in there. Since this worked with 
> >> inittab = 5, my guess is .xinitrc or .Xclients-default is 
> not set up 
> >> right. Please post those if you have them.
> >
> >Thanks again!
> >
> >Yes it works fine in runlevel 5.  I did a locate for the 2 files you 
> >mentioned.  I don't have either of those files (anywhere).
> [13:41:21]$ ls -al .xinitrc
> /home/user
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user 17 Nov 19  2003 .xinitrc -> .Xclients-default
> 
> [14:06:49]$ ls -al .Xclients-default
> /home/user
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 user user 230 Aug 20 09:36 .Xclients-default
> 
> [14:07:00]$ ls -al .Xclients        
> /home/user
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 user user 188 Oct  6  2003 .Xclients
> 
> [14:07:07]$ cat .Xclients
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
> 
> if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then
>     exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY else
>     exec $HOME/.Xclients-default
> fi
> 
> [14:07:18]$ cat .Xclients-default
> # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
> exec /opt/kde3.3.0/bin/startkde
> #exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
> 
Thanks!!

Only one thing. :-)

I do not have kde installed.  I have been using gnome.  It looks as if your
.Xclients is configured to run kde.  Any idea what the command is to start
gnome desktop?

Thanks!





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