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- From: johnsonm@amcl13.StOlaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: [HELP] X11 clients don't display
- Message-ID: <JOHNSONM.93Jan10185600@amcl13.StOlaf.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 00:56:01 GMT
- Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu
- Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA
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- I finally broke down and installed X, and got nearly everything
- working, except for one problem. I am probably missing something
- stupid, but I'd appreciate help finding out what. If this is
- non-linux specific and I should be posting this in the X group, I'd
- like to know that too, but it appears to me that this may have to do
- with a mis-configured linux...
-
- I modified my .twmrc and .xinitrc from the school computers, and when
- I do a startx, X comes up and twm comes up, and my menus work, but no
- clients will display. My display is set correctly, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
- is created, and *the processes are started*. When I exit X, the
- processes are sitting there, stopped, and I have su up to kill all the
- ones like xterm that were suid root.
-
- However, *nothing but the mouse curser and menus ever display*. The
- clients do not print out any error messages unless I intentionally
- start them with bad arguments (like -display :42), in which case, when
- I exit X, the correct error message is showing.
-
- If anyone would be willing to help me, I'd appreciate it. I'd be more
- than happy to provide any more information that you need.
- Unfortunately, I my serial terminal has a few pins unconnected, so I
- can't use it for debugging.
-
- Thanks a lot for any help,
-
- michaelkjohnson
-