On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 13:54 -0500, Robert wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:25 -0500, Robert wrote: > > > <snip> > > >> <snip sig stuff> > >> > > > > 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 at 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 at 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 $HOME/.Xclients-default > fi > [rj at mavis ~]$ > > and > > [rj at 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 at mavis ~]$ > > > But startx sure grows disappointed in a hurry if the latter is empty. --- Interesting.. Upstream mentions in bugzilla that the kernel module is not loaded. Maybe if that specific file is not present that is what happens also?>