I followed your steps and when I tried to run startx got the following: Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
Sure I remove the lock or check if xdm is still running? > > Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > > How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and > > it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm > > just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing > > Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. > > Am I going in the right way? > > I don't think so. In linux you get all the processes with ps -ax. > There are, however, a lot more options. You might read the manual page > with `man ps' :) > > If you are running xdm (get an X-Windows login screen to login right > away after starting your PC) the way to stop it is > - switch to a virtual console, e.g. by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (*) > - login as root > - stop xdm by typing /etc/init.d/xdm stop > - do your configuring > - check your new configuration with startx (don't use xdm for testing, > it is much harder to stop if things go really wrong) > - if it works, exit the Xsession > - restart xdm typing /etc/init.d/xdm start > > (*) This is not mandatory, but more convenient. > > Read every document you can find on configuring X beforehand. > It is not bad idea to create a runlevel that does not start xdm, in case > to have to reset when _really_ screwing up X. Anyone know why such a > run-level isn't defined by default? > > Hope this helps, > > Eric Meijer > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
