> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:35:09 -0600
> From: Trent Shea <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: blfssvn-20090928 Problems installing Xorg 7.4
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> On Monday 19 October 2009 12:20:26 Guy Dalziel wrote:
> > A black screen is now the default colour of the root
> window.
>
> '-retro' should give the classic behaviour.
>
> --
> Trent.
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:05:27 +0100
> From: Guy Dalziel <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: blfssvn-20090928 Problems installing Xorg 7.4
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> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:35:09PM -0600, Trent Shea
> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 October 2009 12:20:26 Guy Dalziel wrote:
> > > A black screen is now the default colour of the
> root window.
> >
> > '-retro' should give the classic behaviour.
>
> Thank you, Trent. The problem, however, isn't really the
> black screen
> itself, but rather the fact that the mouse doesn't work
> until you've
> loaded up a window manager. That coupled with not being
> able to use
> Ctrl-alt-backspace and it creates the illusion that it has
> crashed. I
> don't know if the old screen would really solve the
> problem, but for our
> purposes it might prove less confusing.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:40:39 -0600
> From: Trent Shea <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: blfssvn-20090928 Problems installing Xorg 7.4
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> On Monday 19 October 2009 13:05:27 Guy Dalziel wrote:
> > Thank you, Trent. The problem, however, isn't really
> the black screen
> > itself,
> I trimmed too much when I quoted - my bad. '-retro' does
> more than just
> change the background, though.
>
> A snippet from the Xorg man page:
>
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>
> Immediately kills the
> server -- no questions asked.
> This is
>
> disabled by default. It can be
> enabled with the -retro
> command
>
> line flag or by setting the DontZap
> xorg.conf(5) file
> option to
>
> a FALSE value
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Trent.
Thanks Trent that fixed the problem :)
Running the command:
X -retro -config ~/xorg.conf.new
not only gave me the old style gray background but Control-alt-backspace worked
and my mouse also worked.
Magic!
Regards,
Gary
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