On 03/12/2018 06:30, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > On Dec 02, 2018, at 10:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/02/2018 10:40 PM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm in section "Xorg-7 Testing and Configuration" in BLFS 8.3-systemd. >>> Xorg seems to work, and when I issue startx I get the Xorg desktop with >>> 3 xterm windows and 1 xclock window. However, the windows have no >>> frames, and cannot be moved or resized. I remember twm differently, and >>> I'm wondering if it's supposed to be like this, or if something is wrong >>> with twm? Is this the default behavior, just windows that have no >>> frames, and cannot be moved or resized? >>> Thanks a lot, >> >> You should be able to grab the header and move the windows. Resizing is >> different. Click and hold in the upper right corner with the left mouse >> button and move the mouse out of the window. An outline should appear. >> When you release the mouse button, the window should resize. Click in >> the background to get a menu. >> >> -- Bruce > > The windows have no header. The way you describe it is what I remember from > twm, but my windows have no headers and no outlines. That's why I'm wondering > whether twm is working alright. > > Hans >
That happened once to me because I had built xorg-server before installing the font utilities. Because of that, Xorg couldn't find fonts that twm was requesting, and twm could not start. I think you can still exit X, though, by moving the mouse to the upper left window and typing Ctrl-D. Then you can examine the terminal where you launched "startx" for any errors (note that there may be a lot of warnings about fonts not found, if you have not installed the legacy fonts, so that this part is useless). If my hypothesis is correct, it should say something about helvetica fonts, as far as I remember. Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to try to see what went wrong. If the fonts are not found, install them, and rebuild xorg-server. If anything else, well, I guess we need more details... Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
