William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:25 -0500, Robert wrote:
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Again, I'm not really knowledgeable about this stuff.
HTH
First, thanks to both you and John Stanley and anyone else whose reply I lost.
Finally, after beating up on myself, I found an <empty> ~/.Xclients-default file. Not missing, but empty! Copying the file from the newly created user fixed the problem.
This is after the repair: [rj@mavis ~]$ ls -l ~/.X* -rw------- 1 rj rj 222 Mar 19 11:52 /home/rj/.Xauthority -rwxr-xr-x 1 rj rj 189 Jun 20 2007 /home/rj/.Xclients -rwxr-xr-x 1 rj rj 189 Apr 19 13:09 /home/rj/.Xclients-default
I don't understand why .Xclients and .Xclients-default are the same length (or even why both are needed).
[rj@mavis ~]$ cat .Xclients #! /bin/bash
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY else exec $HOME/.Xclients-default fi [rj@mavis ~]$
and
[rj@mavis ~]$ cat .Xclients-default #! /bin/bash # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
WM="startkde" WMPATH="/usr/bin /opt/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin"
for p in $WMPATH ; do [ -x $p/$WM ] && exec $p/$WM done
exit 1 [rj@mavis ~]$
But startx sure grows disappointed in a hurry if the latter is empty.