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List:       xfree-newbie
Subject:    FWD: Re: [Newbie] Botched install of 4.0.2 ?
From:       rodney marr <animal22 () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2000-12-23 4:54:29
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Thanks!
That is what I was tryig to find out. I changed the xinitrc to reflect kde
now. But it failed on font error. I was reading through the old config file
for xfree, and I found that Linux Mandrake does not use the default font
server. I found not a default path, but this. What is this for?
Fontpath    "unix/:-1"
It also says the keyboard failed, but after comparing the backup XF86Config
file and the new one, they are the same. Is there another Config file I
should be checking?

Thanks again.
Rodney Marr

------Original Message------
From: David Shochat <shochat@acm.org>
To: newbie@XFree86.Org
Sent: December 22, 2000 10:43:49 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [Newbie] Botched install of 4.0.2 ?


rodney marr wrote:

> Hi,
> I am running Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with an ATi all in wonder 16Mb.
> I am using KDE 2.0 and I just upgraded from Xfree86 4.0 to 4.02.
> I have redone my Configure file, and it seems to be working, but when I
type
> in startx I get an x screen with 3 windows. Two black xterm windows, and
one
> white background logon window. Why did it not go back to KDE like it used
> to? Did I botch the Install?
>
No. There is no problem. Same thing happened to me. I think it's a
simple matter of the XFree 4.0.x install replacing your previous
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc (which used to start KDE for you).

You can either edit that file as root (to effect all users) or copy it
to the name .xinitrc in your home directory and edit that (then it will
only effect you).

The stock version which I figure you now have has these lines at the end:

# start some nice programs

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

Delete or comment out all that and replace it with

exec startkde

In my case, I use

exec gnome-session.

But it's the same idea.
-- David

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