Get rid of everything: what a good idea! I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did work--sort of.
When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get is a black rectangle in upper left 2/3 of screen with a bash prompt. That sounds good, but everything else is bad: 1. The rest of the screen is trash background (a rough blend of colors rather than (default?) blue. Shouldn't the terminal have been left the remaining background intact? 2. The terminal has none of the features I'd normally expect a terminal window to have, such as a window frame. That may be because I've no window manager running yet. 3. The insertion point of the prompt is not a solid rectangle, but an empty rectangle. Any keyboard input cause the prompt to disappear, although the black rectangle remains. Interesting. I've no idea what it all means. Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
