Subject: [X] Weird startx behavior From: hjstein@sunrise.huji.ac.il (Harvey J. Stein) Date: 11 Jun 1993 16:54:07
I was looking X windows configuration files, and I must have
inadvertently changed something, because now it's acting differently
than when I first installed it. I start up X by typing:
startx -- X386mono 2>startx
I just installed SLS version 1.02. When I first installed it, X would
start up using the open look virtual windows manager (olvwm). It came
up with the little virtual window thing, and three Xterms (or
Xterm-like things) running sh in the top three virtual pages. Then
after I poked around, and restarted X, it used twm! I don't know what
I did! I also have no idea how the thing managed to start olvwm,
because the last line of /usr/X386/lib/X11/init/xinitrc was
exec twm
and I know I didn't change that! However, when I did change that to
exec olvwm
I got back openlook, but it didn't have the same configuration! It
had one bash based Xterm, and a clock!
Background:
I have a Hercules graphics station card (TI TM34010 based TIGA card),
so I have to run X in standard VGA mode. Thus, since the X386mono
is the mode that has the standard VGA mode in it, I run this server.
Incidentally, is there any way to run in color 640x480 vga instead of
mono 640x480 vga?