On Thu, 13 May 1999, Jerry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just get my xwindows (fvwm2) on redhat 5.0 up an running? But
there are a
> few things that I am quite puzzled.
>
> 1) When I run the the pre-installed game, xgala?, and I hit the
spacebar,
> the game will exit by itself and disappear from the screen. What is the
> problem? Is there something wrong with my keyboard mapping?
>
> 2) Why can't I execute certain command using xterm in xwindows? For
> example, when I try 'vigp', the result is command not found. But when
> I try it in the console, there is no problem. This also happens when I
> use 'shutdown'.
bash (if you use bash) uses a different initialization script for login
shells than for interactive shells (xterm), which might set the PATH
where it looks for commands differently. What these are named might
vary somewhat by distro, but man bash should tell you in the FILES bit
near the end.
>
> 3) If I use runlevel 5 to start xdm as the login process, once I get
into
> xwindows, how can I do a proper shutdown of the system? If I exit
> xwindows, I will be greeted by the graphical login prompt again?
>
Even with runlevel 5, there should be a getty on tty6, which you can get
to with control-alt-F6. Oops, at least in RedHat 5.0, there were
getties on tty1-6 for runlevel 5. I tried shutting down from inside xdm
once, just to see. It looked kind of funky, but it doesn't seem to have
done any harm. Linux is remarkably robust. :-)
> 4) When I try to activate the screensaver or lock the screen, nothing
will
> happen. What is the reason?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Have a nice day!
> Jerry
>
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>
>
>
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