David Densmore wrote:
>
> I used Apt to upgrade from Slink to Potato, now X doesn't work.
> The X server will start, the background appears and the mouse cursor
> will move around the screen (running twm), but no xterm appears and
well, that means that X works perfectly. what you're missing is a
window manager.
> the cursor menu won't appear when I press the mouse button. So I can't
> do anything except move the cursor around a blank background and exit
> with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
you can do a lot more. for example switch to another console and run
some X program with -display :0 and switch back to X.
> Does anyone know how I can fix this? It worked fine before the upgrade
> and I had no problems when I upgraded from Hamm to Slink using Apt.
you want some window manager, either install it using apt-get or nif
you already have some try:
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
it will let you pick the one that would be a default one.
erik
