Grey screen when Starting X

E-Oreo · 12-13-2002, 04:10 PM

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

MasterC · 12-13-2002, 10:03 PM

Setup your ~/.xinitrc file. What distro are you running, and what wm are you wanting to run?

Cool

whansard · 12-13-2002, 11:57 PM

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

E-Oreo · 12-14-2002, 12:03 PM

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.

whansard · 12-14-2002, 01:20 PM

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

E-Oreo · 12-15-2002, 12:37 PM

ok thanks, i'll try it