On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 13:54 -0500, Robert wrote:
>
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:25 -0500, Robert wrote:
> >
> <snip>
>
> >> <snip sig stuff>
> >>
> >
> > Again, I'm not really knowledgeable about this stuff.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> First, thanks to both you and John Stanley and anyone else whose reply I
> lost.
>
> Finally, after beating up on myself, I found an <empty>
> ~/.Xclients-default file. Not missing, but empty!
> Copying the file from the newly created user fixed the problem.
>
> This is after the repair:
> [rj@mavis ~]$ ls -l ~/.X*
> -rw------- 1 rj rj 222 Mar 19 11:52 /home/rj/.Xauthority
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rj rj 189 Jun 20 2007 /home/rj/.Xclients
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rj rj 189 Apr 19 13:09 /home/rj/.Xclients-default
>
>
> I don't understand why .Xclients and .Xclients-default are the same
> length (or even why both are needed).
>
> [rj@mavis ~]$ cat .Xclients
> #! /bin/bash
>
> # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
>
> if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then
> exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY
> else
> exec $HOME/.Xclients-default
> fi
> [rj@mavis ~]$
>
> and
>
> [rj@mavis ~]$ cat .Xclients-default
> #! /bin/bash
> # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
>
> WM="startkde"
> WMPATH="/usr/bin /opt/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin"
>
> for p in $WMPATH ; do
> [ -x $p/$WM ] && exec $p/$WM
> done
>
> exit 1
> [rj@mavis ~]$
>
>
> But startx sure grows disappointed in a hurry if the latter is empty.
---
Interesting.. Upstream mentions in bugzilla that the kernel module is
not loaded. Maybe if that specific file is not present that is what
happens also?>
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