Thanks a lot. I believe this will help me immensely :)

Josh

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> At 2:48 AM -0700 7/23/97, Josh Hope wrote:
> >I've seen this question here on this list many times, unfortunately I
> >never payed much attention to the answer since I never thought I'd want to
> >run X...since I saw it mentioned so often, I checked for it in the
> >FAQ...but it wasn't there...
> >
> >I got the X that's described in the FAQ. Decompressed xbase12 and the
> >xserver. When I run startx, it sits there for a while (about 10 mins,
> >loading X...I knew there was gonna be a long wait). After that, I just get
> >a little X cursor and nothing more happens and I am forced to restart the
> 
> what exactly is "startx" supposed to do? i had problems running that
> script, too.  running "xinit" runs stuff in ~/.xinitrc ("man xinit" shows
> some useful examples), and it opens the X server and an xterm by default if
> you don't have a ~/.xinitrc
> before knowing about xinit, and having no luck with startx, i just typed
> X &; sleep 10; xterm -display :0.0 &
> to get things running. it wasn't very grand, and quitting x was annoying
> (kill -9 <pid>), but it worked. i recommend using xinit instead.
> 
> >machine (which really ruined my new 5 day uptime record)...oh, I can move
> >the cursor around...but that's about it.
> >
> 
> awh, that's nothing, i had a 65 day uptime before my power went out :-)
> 
> >Anyways, I am pretty sure I must create a .something file in my home
> >dir...but I'm not sure what this file should be called, nor do I know what
> >belongs in it...
> >
> 
> see above. man xinit has some great examples.
> 
> >Any help, would be much appreciated :) Thanks for putting up with my
> >ignorance...
> >
> >Josh
> 
>   - a
> 
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