[vox-tech] Part Way Into X

[Peter Jay Salzman]

hi jim,

believe it or not, in a sense, nothing is obviously wrong.  X is prolly
working just fine.

for whatever reason, you're not running a window manager or desktop
manager.  this is what X looks like when she's completely naked and
exposed.

i'm not familiar enough with redhat to know how to get your previous
configuration back.  there are many different ways to get a win manager
and/or desktop manager running.

in the meantime, to kill it, just do ctl-alt-backspace as usual.

what does your $HOME/.xinitrc contain?

what does your $HOME/.Xsession contain?

what happened recently that might have changed your system?

send me the contents of startx 2>filetosendpete

hth,
pete


begin Jim Angstadt <jimajima9@yahoo.com> 
> Hi All,
> 
> [I'm re-sending this.  I used on old address before.]
> 
> My Red Hat 7.1 box booted normally to the command line
> this morning.  Ran startx and hung part way into it. 
> I see a carpet pattern that slowly moves N to S and is
> composed of diagonal lines in various colors.
> 
> How do I get out of limbo?  Please keep it simple.
> 
> ---
> Jim

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