Hi, On 7/21/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow me to display my ignorance: what is gdm? Is it another component > of the x-windows-system? When I re-installed x-windows, it asked me to > select gdm or xdm. It's not an acronym for gnome, is it? Let me man it.
Gnome Display Manager... pretty much the same functionality as xdm just w/ some added featurse and lacking ugliness. > But what is/are Shapes? I get seemingly related error messages on the > console from openbox: > > Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0". > > and other much more obstructive errors when i try blackbox and > enlightenment. > > Hendrik, re your problem, could it be that you have the wrong video > settings in your XFree86 config? I would say it probably is a bad XF86Config-4... maybe he could post his logs/config file somewhere? Cameron Matheson
