Re: [PLUG] X or fluxbox problem

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Stephen Gran wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 09:06:30AM -0400, Art Alexion said:
>  
>
> > Does it help with the diagnosis that this has never 
> > been a problem until the kernel and X were recently updated?  
> >    
>
> Yes.  The upgrade probably changed an X config file out from under you.
> Try looking around in /etc/X11, and look closely at the diff's if there
> are any files with a .rpm-old copies lying around.
>  
Output of [root@rodney arthur]# diff /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.rpmsave 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

is [root@rodney arthur]# [nothing]

BTW,
[root@rodney arthur]# ls -l /etc/X11/XF86Config-4*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3736 Sep 30 16:13 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3736 Feb 28  2004 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4.rpmsave

>  
>
> > KDE & Window Maker were installed with the distro (updated, but 
> > originally included) whereas I installed fluxbox from a .tar.gz.  I 
> > edited /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to include fluxbox by just mimicking the 
> > lines for the other window managers.  Would it help if I showed you 
> > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession?
> >    
>
> I don't think that's the problem, although I'm happy to look if you want
> to show me :)
>  

The relevant part is:

case $# in
1)
   if [ -x /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.$1 ]; then
      exec -l $SHELL -c "/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.$1";
   fi;

   case $1 in
   failsafe)
      exec -l $SHELL -c "xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0"
      ;;
   gnome)
      exec -l $SHELL -c "gnome-session"
      ;;
   kde|kde1|kde2)
      exec -l $SHELL -c "/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde"
      ;;
# I inserted the following 3 lines in order to see if I could get fluxbox
# loading from kdm/xdm
   fluxbox)
       exec -l $SHELL -c "/usr/local/bin/fluxbox"
   ;;
   twm)
       # fall back to twm
      exec -l $SHELL -c "/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.twm"
      ;;
   esac
esac

Thanks for helping me troubleshoot this.

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