Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

[Lane Lester]

Brian T. Schellenberger said:
>  I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just
>  do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc.
>  
>  Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks
>  you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything.
>  
>  Thus a plain gray screen.
>  
>  Try deleting it and then do a startx.

Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this
investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting
(well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out
"x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab
allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to
operate without crashing back to the console.

Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is
running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find
where that is going on and make the change.
-- 
Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
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