RE: xdm, xinit and startx problem

1997-09-15 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Hi, With regards to your xman problem, have you checked the permissions of /dev/null? I had exactly the same problem and messages from xman with an installation of Slackware - it was because /dev/null only had root permissions. I had to chmod it so that everybody could use /dev/nul

Re: xdm, xinit and startx problem

1997-09-14 Thread TJM
Rob, Tried your suggestion to Exec top without success. There is already a line to Exec top with several other parameters. However, when using xdm, this menu choice (to exec top) doesn't work but when using startx or xinit to start X, this line works perfectly and top runs in the xterm window. th