[102522] in RedHat Linux List
Re: X-windows system wont work anymore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Dec 3 18:38:20 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:38:28 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Nelson Little wrote:
> Hi + help!
>
> I just instaleld RedHat5.2 and everything went nice and smoothly, but now
> when I try to start up X via "startx" the screen shows this "grainy" window
> with an "x" for a mouse cursor.. it never fully loads up into the x-windows
> system. I can still do "Crtl+Alt+Backspace" to get back to the command
> prompt. Can anyone help? I don't know why it worked before and now It wont
> work at all.
If you did an upgrade to 5.2 as I did, or if you still have all your X
dotfiles,
try hiding all your X related dot files
in a subdirectory, so you get plain defaults again. You can then compare
and find which of the dotfiles needs to be changed because
of the new X version.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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