Ted Spradley wrote:
> I looked in root for all files; outside of "core",
I bet that's a big one, and it's of no value to you. Remove it.
Thanks for the info on "core". It is, by far, the largest file in the
root directory. It will disappear - any clue as to what it is?
Now type "ls -la". The "l" is for long, it will show you the size
of
the files, in bytes, in a column near the middle of the lines. The
"a"
is for all, it will show you the files who's names start with a
period.
Those are normally "hidden". Look for a file called .xinitrc and
have a
look at its contents (it's plain text).
Now you have to find the home directory of an ordinary user account.
You didn't mention what account name you use, so I'm going to use
"paul"
in these instructions. Substitute the real login name.
Type "cd ~paul". That's a tilde, in the northwest corner of the
keyboard, Shift+accent grave. That should get you to the user's
home
directory. Type "ls -la" there and look again for .xinitrc. If
there
isn't one, just copy root's: "cp ~/.xinitrc ." The tilde followed
immediately by the slash refers to your own (in this case, root's)
home
directory. The period by itself refers to the current working
directory, which should be the ordinary user's home as a result of
the
"cd ~paul" you typed earlier. After the cp, then type "chown paul
.xinitrc" and "chmod 644 .xinitrc". Now log out from root and log
in as
paul and see if that isn't closer to what you want.
Now if there already was a .xinitrc in ~paul, look for a
.xsession-errors file. If you find one it may have a clue what's
wrong.
I did basically what you indicated over the weekend. Found what I hoped
was root's .xinitrc, copied it to my user's directory (went up and down the
tree, didn't know about the shortcut method) and changed ownership so that
users could execute it. However, I may have copied the wrong .xinitrc file
or done a typo in the process; I'll double check at home and follow your
suggestion, thanks.
the saga continues... ;-)
Paul Sherman
Biomedical Engineer
VA Center for Engineering & Occupational Safety and Health
(CEOSH)
St. Louis, MO
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