On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
> >
> >xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
> >/etc/X11/X is not executable
> >xinit: Server error
>
>
> This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago
> there was a
Kent West wrote:
> I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right;
> sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't "take". The three legal
> options for that line, according to "man Xwrapper.config", are
> "rootonly", "console", and "anybody". For most situations, you'd wan
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
or better yet, do as the file says and run "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common"
and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
Kent West wrote:
> I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
> or better yet, do as the file says and run "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common"
> and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
users appeared, the o
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Now as a normal (non-root) user, run "startx". What happens?
I logged in as my user and ran startx. It returned three lines:
xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
/etc/X11/X is not executable
xinit: Server error
Kent West wrote:
> Log into an "ordinary terminal", and stop/kill any X-related processes.
> (Use "ps ax" and "kill" as necessary, or use other means such as
> "/etc/init.d/kdm stop").
Earlier I had purged xserver-xorg and all its dependencies and
reinstalled it. No change.
Then
# update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme only shows one cursor theme
installed: /usr/share/icons/Industrial/cursor.theme. I think that this
theme is the default Gnome cursor theme, because when I tried to remove
it aptitude wanted to remove Gnome-desktop-environment as well.
Of course, what I
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:54 -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> The behavour described in my questions two and three may be due to the
> same cause. I think that if gdm, and possibly other parts of the Gnome
> desktop environment, remain unpurged from a box where KDE is preferred,
> some Gnome app
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:23:49PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
> > 3. On both the laptop and desktop I seem to be stuck with the Gnome
> > login manager. Selecting options in the System Administration>Login
> > Manager of the KDE control manager are not implemented. Is there file
Ken Heard wrote:
A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop.
The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing
it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I
replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted to
Kent West wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
>> I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The
>> box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the
>> other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba
>> laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. Th
Ken Heard wrote:
> I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The
> box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the
> other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba
> laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. The latter has some nice
Ken Heard wrote:
1. On the P3 desktop only, the panel displays the taskbar three times.
Once is surely enough. I tried to fix it by purging KDE and
reinstalling it, to no avail. Any ideas on what I can do to remove this
redundancy?
Right-click on the panel, move your mouse over "Remove
I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The
box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the
other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba
laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. The latter has some nice new
features, but I have
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