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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  
>ph +613 9347 9758     fx  +613 9347 2052

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.   
 
-- 
Paul U Cameron                           
Research Fellow,   Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
University of Melbourne  
ph +613 9347 9758     fx  +613 9347 2052

In <e4WJ2.39996$Hn5.21824@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> "Daniel De Fazio" <ddefazio@bigpond.com> writes:

>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??



Check that all of the files in /etc/X11 are readable by any user.
chmod -R a+rX /etc/X11
Run startx with
startx -- -bpp 16 >/tmp/X 2>&1
and look into /tmp/X
Finally, you could have network problems, in that for some weird reason
some of the scripts in for example AnotherLevel make a network call.
(Can't remember why anymore but it was a problem I had)