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Old 07-18-2019, 07:51 AM   #1
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How do you reconfigure X ?


Hi All,
I messed up X somehow. I can log into Openbox with root. But when I run startx as user X shuts down.
It started when I ran " echo openbox > ~/.xinirc " at login rather than a terminal. Don't know why I did that. Was not thinking for sure. Now I can't get to a tty to dom it properly.
Thanks for the help.
 
Old 07-18-2019, 09:13 AM   #2
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But if you use startx, you are already at a console. Why not edit .xinitrc from there?
 
Old 07-18-2019, 09:36 AM   #3
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Hey Hazel,
How you been doing? Ok, I cleared the `/.xinitrc and X still terminated on startx command. I can still get to openbox using root and use firefox and xterm.
I'm unable to get to a tty as user though . I hate to mess up all this work from yesterday . Thanks for your help
Dan
 
Old 07-18-2019, 09:56 AM   #4
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You can't just "clear" .xinitrc. It needs to have a session starter command in it. And that has to be an exec operation, not a spawned command like "openbox". Apparently the correct command for starting openbox is "exec openbox-session". That's what the Debian wiki says anyway.
 
Old 07-18-2019, 10:06 AM   #5
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Well I tried that and x still terminates as user. Do you know what I would need to reinstall to override the existing x conf settings? I reinstalled x server, twm and xterm.
Thanks
 
Old 07-18-2019, 01:51 PM   #6
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I'm just wondering. You have the systemd version of LFS. I wonder if that launches xorg in rootless mode. If that was the case, you might need to be in the video group to use it.
 
Old 07-18-2019, 06:09 PM   #7
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Hey Hazel
I don't know for sure. I did try some x reconfig commands none of that worked. So I started again with a clone made when x was completed.
Now I'm building stuff again.
 
  


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