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On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 19:34 +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Adam Rykala wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Julian - what about the x log files in /var/log/? Anything there? </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Sounds like its gon back to xdm</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">As a relative newbie to this depth of hassle with Linux I have no clue </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">what any of the logs mean. e.g. what's the difference between </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xorg.0.log and Xorg.1.log?</FONT>
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Just date as I recall -on eof them is newer<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> As a thought - you haven't install Yahoo's own messenger have you</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Nope. I use GAIM.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> - that corrupts things (try renaming $HOME/.xinitrc and restarting X?)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">How do I do that please? I can't even see any files starting with a . </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I know they're system files and normally hidden. How do I unhide them?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Kind regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Julian</FONT>
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ls -al (as someone else pointed out) will show them<BR>
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in your home directory, from a console type<BR>
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cat .xinitrc<BR>
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anything?<BR>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#ff0000">Adam Rykala </FONT></B><BR>
<B><FONT COLOR="#ff0000">adam@rykala.demon.co.uk </FONT></B><BR>
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