Hi,

Hmm..this sub-forum is quite quiet compare to its parent distro sub-forum
Anyway,
I have a problem after reinstall zenwalk 6.2.
I dont format my /home partition when reinstall.
Before reinstall I had deleted all the dot files and dirs in my current
/home/hottdogg directory with assumption they will be created again
as soon as I login for the first time after reinstall.
But apparently not, now I can not login in GUI mode as normal user.
After this incident, I changed the runlevel to 3.
So anyone can help me how can I startx(run GUI) again as an ordinary user?
(I'm in root gui as I'm writing now).
Thanx.

Well, in the "parent distro" this is what I would do:
1. Log out of root's X
2. From a console log in as your user
3. While logged into a console as your user, run xwmconfig and select a desktop environment
4. Run startx

Okay..a small progress , I choose xfce but what I get is very basic, unpolished, ugly xfce instead of the default zenwalk xfce.
What dot file that's responsible for xfce config that I can safely copy from root to normal user ?

What xwmconfig did was copy one of the files in /etc/X11/xinit to your user's .xinitrc. If your root user's xfce is like what you want, then you could copy (as root) /root/.xinitrc to /home/yourusername/.xinitrc. Then change the ownership of your user's .xinitrc to your user. Most likely Zenwalk has a stock xinitrc someplace but I'm not familiar with that.
Then log out as root, log in as your user and run startx.

copying .xinitrc only still has the same result, ugly xfce, but after trial and error, problem solved.
So i just copied .config directory from root to user and make sure the content is exactly the same as in the original, especially the *.xml file.
Tnx