Nothing is on the deskstop

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Jon  Miller writes:

>  I did an upgrade of the Xfree86 to version 4.2.0 and now I cannot
>  see anything on the desktop. I'm using RHL7.1 completely patched
>  up-todate.  I wanted to use WindowMaker-0.85.  The installs for both
>  went fine, but the onlt thing on my desktop is the twm and nothing
>  else.  I cannot create a windows or anything of the sort.  Does
>  anyone know of how to fix this mess? 
>  Also because of this I can only start programs from xterm.  The
>  problem with this is when I close Mozilla for instance (I may have 4
>  sessions opened) all of the Windows with Mozilla closes and xterm
>  session and it sends me back to the login screen. 
>  It does not matter if I login as root or a user, KDE or Gnome it's
>  all the same. 

	Check your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession.  This reminds me of my
first experiments with X, back before I learned about init files.


				Robert Huff

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