On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:11, Rob Wood wrote: > Hi > Thanks to Glyn, Chris and David for previous help. > > I seem to have made some progress with XTinybin.tar. I re-downloaded the > file and found it was XTinybin.tar.gz (It got labelled as XTiny....tar.tar > at 1st attempt) so I gzip'd it and then tar'd it as it says in the manual > but couldn't find a readme file. There isn't one in that archive.
> However I now seem to have a sort of rectangular mouse cursor on the screen > so it has done something. Do you mean the X shaped one? That's correct. It's supposed to be an X for the X-11 server. > The manual says "get XF86Config into the /etc directory" but the locate > command couldn't find the file. XF86Config normally lives in the /etc/X11 directory. If you are running a recent version of the X-11 server you can generate a starting point XF86Config file using ( as the root user ) the incantation:- X -configure This will ( hopefully ) produce a usable config file, To test it 'say' X -config XF86Config.new This should produce the stippled grey background with an X cursor which moves. You can edit this config file using your editor of choice and restart the X server ad infinitum until you are satisfied with the setup. Once you are happy with the X. You can move the config file into place with:- cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11 Now start the X server for real with:- startx > Would this be likely to be a hidden file? > and if so, would locate not find it anyway? > > Any ideas? If you install a bundle of files, you have to update the database used by 'locate'. Run updatedb as root. It takes a few minutes usually. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
