Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-07 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:16:37 -0400, Shacristo wrote: > >> Perhaps you should have it actually start a window manager, eg "exec >> openbox-session" or whatever your preferred wm is. > > Well, I've purposely not installed any DE or WM yet. M

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-07 Thread Shacristo
Is it actually failing to start or is it executing .xinitrc and exiting? .xinitrc needs to hand off control to a wm. You can still use twm from .xinitrc.

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-07 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:16:37 -0400, Shacristo wrote: > Perhaps you should have it actually start a window manager, eg "exec > openbox-session" or whatever your preferred wm is. Well, I've purposely not installed any DE or WM yet. My goal at this point is to configure default X environment with i

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-07 Thread Shacristo
> In my case X starts only if ~/.xinitrc file does not exist at all. > >> Is that line is only one you have in your .xinitrc? > > Yes, I have only 2 lines I mentioned in my original post. > >> Do you have system xinitrc? (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) > > Yes, I do. > >> Is it empty? > > No, it is not. I

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-07 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:29:29 +0400, Igor Mosyagin wrote: > Hello there. > > Would your system still fail with empty .xinitrc? (mv ~/.xinitrc > ~/dangerous_xinitrc && touch ~/.xinitrc) Yes, the system fails with empty ~/.xinitrc. Actually it supposed to fail according with this snippet from "Te

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-07 Thread Igor Mosyagin
gt; Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 03:54:37 + (UTC) > From: "Juan R. de Silva" > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:45:49 +

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:45:49 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> 3. In case net-tools package from core does not provide hostname any >> more as well, what would be a solution then for one that would like to >> use "terminus" fonts which by

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-06 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > 3. In case net-tools package from core does not provide hostname any more > as well, what would be a solution then for one that would like to use > "terminus" fonts which by default installed into /usr/share/fonts/local? I've never had any

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:37:58 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and >> successfully tested. >> >> Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts >> I installe

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-06 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and successfully > tested. > > Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts > I installed "terminus" fonts, created ~/.xinitrc file and added to it the > fol

[arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc

2011-09-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and successfully tested. Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts I installed "terminus" fonts, created ~/.xinitrc file and added to it the following lines as advised: xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local xset fp