Subject: Re: Idiot at work
To: Kirk Boston (bs ifsm) <kbosto1@gl.umbc.edu>
From: Jon Howell <jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/25/1996 17:32:10
> once X has started I get the crosshatch screen and then the Big X cursor 
> in the screen and it moves so nothing is locked up yet...(I hope)
> but nothing everhappens past here...

It sounds like you started X with just "X" (the server), and it's sitting
waiting for a client to start. To get your .xinitrc to run, you need to
type "startx", or maybe it's "xinit".

	--Jon

                            Jon Howell
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