Thanks to everyone who responded. In the end, the answer is to have TWM
as the last command in my .xsession file. TWM is minimal enough that it
doesn't get in my way, yet forces the X windows session to stay alive
until TWM quits -- which I never do.
Drew Cohan
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> -Origina
"Drew" == Drew Cohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Drew> Can anyone please tell me why X shuts down on its own in the
Drew> following situation? I want it to keep running continuously.
Drew> I have no window manager installed (don't need one), I've
Drew> got xserver-xfree86 inst
> -Original Message-
> From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: X startup & immediate shutdown (no errors)
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:53:12AM -0800, Charlie Re
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:53:12AM -0800, Charlie Reiman wrote:
> > Can anyone please tell me why X shuts down on its own in the following
> > situation? I want it to keep running continuously.
> >
> > I have no window manager installed (don't need one), I've got
> > xserver-xfree86 installed, I ca
> -Original Message-
> From: Drew Cohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: X startup & immediate shutdown (no errors)
>
>
> Can anyone please tell me why X shuts down on its own in the following
> situation? I want it t
Billy Bump wrote:
ok the touch pad in not cracked but it does not work in any configuration
windows98, linux, mandrake kde. It quit and I have not fixed it yet. It
has been disabled in the cmos to stop the computer from looking for it
because it draws error messages when booting in dos for wind
Billy Bump wrote:
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kent West [mailto:westk@;acu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 3:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: x startup
>
> ok the touch pad in not cracked but it does not work in any configuration
> windows9
question i'm not sure
-Original Message-
From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:debian-user@;virtual.doorstop.net]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 2:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: x startup
* Billy Bump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021021 12:28]:
> I have just completed installing debian3.0 on m
Billy Bump wrote:
The laptop is a gateway 2300 p200 with neomagic video card and tft display
and a 4.1 gb harddrive. The touch pad does not work at all i have been
working to fix it but is broken now.
That doesn't quite answer Vineet's question. Is the touch pad physically
broken (cracks, smo
* Billy Bump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021021 12:28]:
> I have just completed installing debian3.0 on my laptop. The touchpad does
> not work so i use a microsoft usb trackball. this trackball worked in my
> previous linux mandrake install. When i try to startx it fails and most of
> the error messag
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>
> Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with
> xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below,
> and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that
> ghastly login screen...
You can design your own logi
Hi!
> Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it right now,
> would adding a line like
>
> :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> allow me to use VT08 for another login, or do I have to do something else?
Not quite what you propose, but a line like this would do the trick:
:1 l
Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with
xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below,
and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that
ghastly login screen...
Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it rig
> What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program
> used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then
> issue a startx command. During installation I told the program I wanted
> to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being start
Hello Dale, there is a file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. That file lets you had
your xservers. you should have a line that says:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
This line should be the last line in this file. If it isn't the xserver
won't get started. I hope this helps. Let me know if this is a fix.
P
If startx doesn't work neither will xdm. When you say you
used startx "like you're used to" do you mean after you
installed Debian or under some other Linux disribution? If
you have had startx work with Debian then you need to figure
out what happened to make X stop working. If you get startx
wo
Install the "cpp" package or the "gcc" package.
Bruce
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