Erik Steffl wrote: > >well, that means that X works perfectly. what you're missing is a >window manager. >
So I am. >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. > That is so neat! Thanks for the -display :0 trick. I can start any X app that way, and it is really bizarre to run them without a window manager - but it works. I was using twm, but somehow the Apt upgrade from Slink to Potato disabled it. I will concentrate my efforts on reconfiguring the window manager. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. David