Okay, I found out Xorg --configure needs to be run as root to do a boot
strap configuration. I also found Xorg did a segmentation fault at
address 0x50 not too far into the process and died. For that reason,
I've cleared gnome and xorg and associated packages from my system
including any configurations they may have left. At this point, I
figure before I try this again I want to start with a known state. I
wrote a script to handle this and am glad I did that since even after
gnome is removed from the system it somehow leaves lots of packages
behind. These I discovered using yaourt -Syua and taking note of the
error statements that were thrown then adding those extra packages to
the script. On my system for some reason, wpa_supplicant was also
removed but I have the install disk so was able to fix that. Also all
dvd burning tools were removed so I put those back as well.
Interestingly, once all of these packages got removed from the system,
vlc suddenly played files ithout xcb error true coming up each time it
was run.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 06:17:54
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: startx missing twm and xclock
For reference, here's my ~/.xinitrc. I don't claim all these directives
are still necessary. Things change, but my startx is still working
reliably for me on Arch Linux:
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk"
export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
exec gnome-session
Linux for blind general discussion writes:
Is xclock useable in screen reader accessibility context for xorg? What is
the best choice for a wm for screen reader accessibility context? With
startx, how is it run so startx goes into configuration mode? For this last
question startx writes output to stderr and I haven't yet been able to
capture it with less so I can examine it in detail.
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