On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:16:37 -0400, Shacristo wrote: > >> Perhaps you should have it actually start a window manager, eg "exec >> openbox-session" or whatever your preferred wm is. > > Well, I've purposely not installed any DE or WM yet. My goal at this > point is to configure default X environment with its basic window manager > and to make them using Terminus fonts. > > And then, if in my case X fails to start with the bare .xinitrc file how > it would make things any better adding to the file additional commands/ > instructions. > I'm not a .xinitrc guru, but sometimes things didn't want to work properly until I added a wm e.g. playing games or videos in a separate X server.