# update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme only shows one cursor theme
installed: /usr/share/icons/Industrial/cursor.theme. I think that this
theme is the default Gnome cursor theme, because when I tried to remove
it aptitude wanted to remove Gnome-desktop-environment as well.
Of course, what I
Kent West wrote:
Log into an ordinary terminal, and stop/kill any X-related processes.
(Use ps ax and kill as necessary, or use other means such as
/etc/init.d/kdm stop).
Earlier I had purged xserver-xorg and all its dependencies and
reinstalled it. No change.
Then I logged
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Now as a normal (non-root) user, run startx. What happens?
I logged in as my user and ran startx. It returned three lines:
xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
/etc/X11/X is not executable
xinit: Server error
Kent West wrote:
I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
or better yet, do as the file says and run dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
users appeared, the
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
or better yet, do as the file says and run dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
Kent West wrote:
I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right;
sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't take. The three legal
options for that line, according to man Xwrapper.config, are
rootonly, console, and anybody. For most situations, you'd want
console.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ken Heard wrote:
xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
/etc/X11/X is not executable
xinit: Server error
This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago
there was a problem with
Kent West wrote:
Ken Heard wrote:
I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The
box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the
other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba
laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. The latter
Ken Heard wrote:
A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop.
The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing
it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I
replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:23:49PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ken Heard wrote:
3. On both the laptop and desktop I seem to be stuck with the Gnome
login manager. Selecting options in the System AdministrationLogin
Manager of the KDE control manager are not implemented. Is there file
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:54 -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
The behavour described in my questions two and three may be due to the
same cause. I think that if gdm, and possibly other parts of the Gnome
desktop environment, remain unpurged from a box where KDE is preferred,
some Gnome
I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The
box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the
other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba
laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. The latter has some nice new
features, but I have
Ken Heard wrote:
1. On the P3 desktop only, the panel displays the taskbar three times.
Once is surely enough. I tried to fix it by purging KDE and
reinstalling it, to no avail. Any ideas on what I can do to remove this
redundancy?
Right-click on the panel, move your mouse over Remove
Ken Heard wrote:
I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The
box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the
other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba
laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. The latter has some nice new
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