Hi Carl,

Yes, you are right. It should be twm. xdm is the graphic login thing.
I guess system start xdm directly after booting and then twm comes up
because I only see xdm in the rc?.d directories.

I did miss .xinitrc file. I don't have it. After creating .xinitrc file,
everything
is ok on my machine now. Thank you!!

How come the Xinstall.sh doesn't create .xinitrc file for me?
Does it assume I'll use X and don't want to terminate X?
Just a thought.

Do appreciate your help.


Yu-Fong


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Newbie]Did I do correctly on installing XFree86 4.1.0?


> Is ctrl+alt+backspace a choice or kill client a choice?
        both of them will work.

> Isn't there any "normal" way to terminal X?
        X normally exits when the last program mentioned in your .xinitrc
file exits. if you have a .xinitrc file, and it's empty, X should start and
exit right away.

> >> Every time I click "exit" in X,
> >click 'exit' where? is this with GNOME, KDE, FVWM?
>
> The X default one. XDM. If I click mouse in backdrop, it appears a pop
menu.
> The "exit" is in bottom of the pop menu.
        no, XDM is a Display Manager. it's one of the GUI login things.
        you're probably thinking of TWM.

> >> the X hung,
> >what do you mean by 'hung'?
>
> After clicking "exit", window frames (three xterm window) freeze and mouse
> doesn't work, but I still can type in xterms.
        that just means your window manager exited. perfectly normal
behavior.
        if the window manager was the last thing in your .xinitrc; then
exiting the WM should kill X.

so if you don't have an .xinitrc file; make one with only the following line
in it:
twm

then when you start X; and exit your window manager (twm); it should cause X
to exit, since it's the last thing mentioned in  your .xinitrc (the last X
client started from .xinitrc).

Carl Soderstrom
--
Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
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