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Re: xinit can't find X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett)
Sun Oct 20 04:32:06 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 01:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brett <psci@teleport.com>
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Try calling it directly in your startx script thusly:
#!/bin/bash
xinit /usr/local/lib/site.xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
Of course, 'site.xinitrc' is just an example. Use your own actual
location and name. See if that doesn't give better results. bjh
On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Doug Ridgway wrote:
> Something happened to X, and I can't figure out what. The symptom is that
> startx and xinit both fail, complaining that they can't find X in my
> path. But X is in my path, and I can run it by itself, launching a window
> manager from a VC.
>
> I got to this state by upgrading a 3.0.4 system by adding a few packages
> from 4.0. (I wanted to try fvwm95, so I added the fvwm95* packages and
> the XFree* packages they depended on.)
>
> Any clues?
>
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