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In article <36F8D41F.200CE176@ariel.unimelb.edu.au>, Paul U Cameron <camerop@ariel.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
>Daniel De Fazio wrote:
>> 
>> I'm a newbie and I have bought the APC mag Linux pocket book, excellent
>> thing, and I've followed the commands about making another user besides
>> root, (when I log on as root it's fine, I can use any xwindown thingy and do
>> everything), so as not to stuff anything up.  I did create another user and
>> made a password, I log on and do startx, it gets to the grey screen with a
>> cursor but stops, it goes no further, the only option I have is by clicking
>> on the screen and
>> selecting exit FVMN, or something like that.  Any ideas??
>> 
>> Thanks, Daniel.
>
>Sounds like you havent got a windows manager running. 
>Try coppying the .xinitrc, .Xclients and .Xdefaults files from  root to
>your user directory and see if it cures your problem.  
>If it does you then need to set up the system wide defaults.  In RH they
>should be in the /etc/X11 directories or in the /usr/X11R6/ directory
>tree.   

If you do this you'll most likely have to change
the ownership and permissions of the files once
they have been copied to your home directory, use
chmod & chown to do this.

/usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/ (xinitrc & Xclients)

j.

>Paul U Cameron                           
>Research Fellow,   Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
>University of Melbourne  
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