xdm, xinit and startx problem

1997-09-16 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

1997-09-15 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

xdm, xinit and startx problem

1997-09-14 Thread TJM
I have my fvwm95..43a running with very few problems. One of these problems is indicated by not being able to run programs in the menus. For instance, under the utilities menu (left click on the desktop) there is a menu item called 'Running Processes' which is supposed to display a list of ru

xdm, xinit and startx problem

1997-09-14 Thread Rob MacWilliams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have my fvwm95..43a running with very few problems. One of these Try something like this: Exec "Top" exec xterm -e top It tells X to fire up an xterm and run top in it. Later Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

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