On Dec 03, 2018, at 04:41 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support <[email protected]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:33:15PM +0000, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: On Dec 03, 2018, at 01:41 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support <[email protected]> wrote:
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... Ah, now I'm getting something: when I try to launch twm as you describe, I get one font-related error message: twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" I guess it's really that some fonts are missing. I still wonder where I went wrong: in which section did we install this font? Xorg-legacy, the last section in the chapter. You only really need font-adobe-100dpi. If you have installed some TTF/OTF fonts, you could alternatively just try a different windowmanager - I normally use fluxbox to check everythings is working, for me twm is too old-school. That worked, thanks a lot. I just followed the instructions on Xorg Legacy, and now twm is automatically started when I run startx. Hans
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