Grey screen when Starting X
When I type startx on the cli it just gives me a gray screen. No "X" cursor, desktop or login window. Just grey screen. The monitar and video card or configured correctly. Is there anything I need to do besides configure the monitar and video card settings?
Thankz, E-Oreo |
Setup your ~/.xinitrc file. What distro are you running, and what wm are you wanting to run?
Cool |
you could either have not have a window manager set up,
or the one you have set up has no background or menu or anything. if you are user pscooper then you can probably cat > /home/pscooper/.xinitrc startkde hit control-d then startx for a really painful experience, substitute twm for startkde |
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I'm using Redhat 7.3. I'm not sure what wm i'm trying to run. I'v set up a .xinitrc file with "/usr/bin/startkde" in it, but i still get the grey screen.
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other windows managers you can check for like this
which wmaker which blackbox which gnome-session which enlightenment which icewm which sawfish which afterstep any of those that give you a path are installed, and you can put in that .xinitrc instead |
ok thanks, i'll try it
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