12/11/04
Hi Mark and List,
If you can't help me, maybe you could point me in the right direction to get help please - (I don't mind RTFM but please point me to the correct M)?
I used to like XWindows. I was using it with a KDE desktop on RedHat7.2. It had a nice background and a bottom menu with a navigator button and a terminal button and an editor button. It had a 4-Window switcher (I could customize the number of windows, but the button switcher was very handy).....
Now, you tell me that there is "nothing wrong with my logfile" but all I get is an ugly black and white background, 3 terminal windows already open, one of which doesn't even fit in my screen - with no scroll bars so that I constantly have to "clear" when I can't see the bottom (doesn't respond to resizing requests). And an ugly clock. If I click the background I can bring up a "Twm Icon Manager" which is not very helpful.
I've tried the command switchdesk KDE (from inside X Windows, outside X Windows, as root and as user). I get the response that I now have KDE, but it doesn't change the look/feel of my desktop.
I'm thinking that maybe I made a mistake by following what was indicated in the error log and downloading the correct newer version (according to your shell script) of X from your site, and that I should have used an rpm instead. Is that right? Now I don't know how to undo this.
Suggestions?
Meryll
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Meryll Larkin wrote:
12/8/04
Thanks Mark (I'm now using savage driver - I ran XFree86 -configure and moved resulting file to /etc/X11 (after making a back-up of the old config of course),
I think (hope) this is progress. Now when I try to start XWindows I get a black and white background, 2 or 3 open terminal windows and a clock. It still doesn't quite look like X to me....
Could you please take a look at the new logfile,
There's nothing wrong with the logfile. It shows a properly operating X-server. Installing XFree86 will overwrite the old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc so if you had some other window manager selected, it probably gets changed to twm. Most Linux distributions have a tool to setup a different window manager. On RedHat, I believe it was called "switchdesk".
Mark.
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