Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote: > > > XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log > > in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray > > stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and configured, > > but not launching I guess. Any help is appreciated. > > Just a perhaps very stupid question: > > When you say, you have a gray stipple on the screen, it does mean, that > there is no mouse-"X" visible and no menu shows up, when pressing the > left mouse button? > > A naked fvwm shows just a cross patterned black and white background and > the mouse-"X" when being started. >
I reinstalled and documented as many problems as I could reproduce in another message. This particular problem went away (root and user both have full sawfish and gnome displays when I log into them from gdm now). Before the most recent install, I did have a mouse, and a middle button menu. I could launch some commands, but not things like "gnome run", for example. Now I'm going to try and get the thing working from the command line: 1) use "update-rc.d -f gdm remove" to stop gdm. [per Mike Werner] 2) use /sbin/init 0 and /sbin/init 3 to clean up the runlevel 3) now I have the situation as described -- grey stipple, cursor and a simple button2 menu. 4) try to run xterm, which is on the menu, nothing happens. 5) .xsession-errors has a single line in it: "sh: xterm: command not found" You had some other questions, so I will post the answers here: > Do you have a window manager installed? $ which sawfish /usr/bin/sawfish > What's your /etc/X11/Xsession file look like? it has 136 lines, so I don't think I'll post it. But it does look for .xsession early on... > startx /usr/bin/x-window-manager -- :0 same thing. > startx sawfish -- :0 same thing. 6) Mike Werner KA8YSD, proud suzuki owner, suggested : > ----- begin .xsession ----- > #!/bin/sh > exec gnome-session > ----- end .xsession ----- ...which fixed everything. Many thanks, folks -- that's the end of my wish list! Great support on this list. Regards, John
