Xfree86 problems
 

So I suppose I did a very newbish thing. Feeling apparently way to comfortable with my Red Hat 7.2 skills, I upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0. The install seemed to go fine. But it seemes this was a mistake, I either missed a setting, or totally broke something because no matter what manager (I have KDE and Gnome) I try to boot from it automatically comes up to TWM. Can anyone help me to figure out what I have done wrong? If more info is needed, let me know and I will see what I can do.


Thanks,

Eraser

Try to create .xinitrc file in home direcory of one user. Then write startkde or startgnome inside. Close the file, start X.

Thanks so much, but as a Linux newbie, how exactly would I do that from TWM?

If your right/left/both click doesn't work and doesn't bring up the menues, hit Alt-Ctrl-F1...6 to open up a virtual terminal, login as your self
touch .xinitrc
vi .xinitrc
If you are familiar with vi then enter
exec command_or_path_to_execute_your_fav_wm
If you are not familiar with vi use a text editor you're most familiar with (not a GUI one though) and enter the above line, if you want some vi experience press i then enter the line press esc then press Shift-Z-Z

find 'exec twm' in your .xinitrc
change it to 'exec startkde' for kde
change it to 'exec gnome-session' for gnome

good luck