Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday. But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried kde, gnome, blackbox). X itself

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:33:38PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday. But now after I type startx I don't get a

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? I don't know if that's true - I don't have an .xinitrc, just an .xsession, and startx does The

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and nothing else - should I just use .xinitrc instead then? And why has .xsession suddenly starting playing around? Colin To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not Colin .xsession ... I don't know why it

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:28:17PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system,

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Shyamal == Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shyamal startx runs ~/.xinitrc if there is such a file, but Shyamal otherwise runs xinit. This basically results in the Shyamal executions of the files in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ where Shyamal your ~/.xsession file gets

Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hi All, Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to reason listed below) and can't remember how to get vim to wrap. Sorry. Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday. But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried kde,

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
What error message the display shows ? For instance, try $xinit -- : 2 --Baroni --- Harvey Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi All, Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to reason listed below) and can't remember how to get vim to wrap. Sorry. Don't know

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
What error message the display shows ? For instance, try $xinit -- : 2 --Baroni --- Harvey Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi All, Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to reason listed below) and can't remember how to get vim to wrap. Sorry. Don't know

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to reason listed below) and can't remember how to get vim to wrap. Sorry. 'gqaction', so 'gqip' will wrap the current paragraph, for instance. Don't know what has