On 20 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> *-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd > > That's the spirit. :-) > > | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run > | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very > | likely, since I Don't know what I'm doing) or KDE doesn't look to this > | line to start itself, which means to me that KDE apparently thinks it's > | more than just a window manager. (As you can tell, I'm a bit confused > | here.) So the gist of this paragraph is I tried to change to a different > | windowmanager to see if the problem was with KDE or something else and I > | failed to make the change. > > I'll try to unconfuse you. The last line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is > just used if nothing else is found. The file you want to edit is > /etc/X11/window-managers. It will execute the first winman it > finds there. You could also have your own .xsession like this: > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/X11R6/bin/my_favourite_winman > > (This might fail if there is some problem with your home dir) > > | After a while of trying to unlock the authority file (or after I press > | Ctrl-C; I'm not sure which action causes it to go on), X tries to start, > | but only gets to the dull graphic screen. > | > | I rebooted, and deleted /home/westk/.Xauthority. Then I tried starting X > | again as westk. > | > | This time I still get the messages about unlocking the authority file, > | but when X finally starts it starts up just fine, except that KDE tries > | to create several directories in westk (desktop, templates, etc). When I > | shutdown X and then restart it, KDE again tries to create the directories. > | > | Any clues as to what I need to do to fix this? Thanks. > > Are you sure you mount the partition with you home dir? Put an entry > in /etc/fstab to do it automatically. You could also check /etc/passwd, > but it should be OK if /home is mounted. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the info on window-managers. That helps. I found and fixed my problem. Apparently the cp command doesn't copy file permissions. I "chown -R westk .*" and "chown -R westk *"'d the westk directory and that solved my problems. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
