[Gllug] Nothing Simple

[Huw Lynes]

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 14:29, you wrote:
> I am going to demonstrate RH7.2 here at work but I have use
> switchdesk to move between Gnome and KDE now all I get when I start
> startx is is X with nothing on it what have I done? 

OK, If you are getting a horrible green background you've been dumped
down to TWM a very basic windowmanager because nothing else has worked.
If you are getting a grey background, cursor and nothing else then you
are indeed running X with nothing on top of it. This happens when 
startx is waiting on something.

Try starting run level 5 (the command is "init 5" from the console) if 
you get a login manager up then at least X is working and it's just 
your windowmanager setup that is screwed. You might want to check what 
the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit are doing. Also you might want to 
rename any .x* files in your home directory in case these have become 
corrupted.

Thats all I can think of at the moment.
HTH,
Huw

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