Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shyamal> startx runs ~/.xinitrc if there is such a file, but Shyamal> otherwise runs xinit. This basically results in the Shyamal> executions of the files in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ where Shyamal> your ~/.xsession file gets

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:28:17PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I > >don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one > >point? > > man startx: > [...] > > Note that in the Debian

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> and nothing else - should I just use .xinitrc instead then? >> And why has .xsession suddenly starting playing around? Colin> To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not Colin> .xsession ... I don't k

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I > don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one > point? I don't know if that's true - I don't have an .xinitrc, just an .xsession, and startx does T

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:33:38PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > > > Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday. > > > But now after I type startx I don't

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > > Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday. > > But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried > > kde, gnome, blackbox). X it

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to > reason listed below) and can't remember how to get vim to wrap. > Sorry. 'gq', so 'gqip' will wrap the current paragraph, for instance. > Don't know what has happened

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
What error message the display shows ? For instance, try $xinit -- : 2 --Baroni --- Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hi All, > > Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write > this (due to reason listed below) and can't remember > how to get vim to wrap. Sorry. > > Do

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
What error message the display shows ? For instance, try $xinit -- : 2 --Baroni --- Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hi All, > > Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write > this (due to reason listed below) and can't remember > how to get vim to wrap. Sorry. > > Do