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Re: X-windows system wont work anymore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff)
Thu Dec 3 19:36:55 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 19:08:09 -0500
From: Jeff <strider@acm.org>
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Well, if you can make it that far, you should be able to launch a window
manager from your ~/.xinitrc file, right? It sounds like your wm is
either failing partially, or altogether, so you might need to reinstall
it or try a different one, then tell us what happened.
Good luck.
Jeff
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.
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