Thanks. I moved all the .x files out of /root. The I ran switchdesk KDE and then moved .Xdefaults out of /root. entered startx and up came the x windows interface. I'm still scratching my head but it is working.
Thanks again,
Bob
Ed Greshko wrote:
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 12:12, Bob Hartung wrote:
Ed,
after typing startx there is a pause then in the center of the screen "No Input Signal" appears and lasts for 1-2 seconds. Next there is some output to the screen that begins with
XFree86 Version ....
and the last 2 lines are
/root/.Xclients: line 8: /root/.Xclients-default: Success waiting for X server to shut down
then back to the command prompt. The last two lines do not appear in the log file
Is there anything in /root/.xsession-errors?
You could also, for a shot in the dark, try something like the following....
1. Login as root. 2. Create a directory called hold 3. Move (mv) all of your .X* and .x* files to the hold directory. 4. Optionally, also move all .gnome* directories to the hold area. 5. Try starting x
Ed
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