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09-15-2011

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guys, thanks for updating my statements. i tried to boot to runlevel 3 and and then ran this:

Code:

xinit -e <path to window manager>

--> it did not workand gave me the beloe error:

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FATAL: Module fbcon not found
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "xterm" in PATH

specify the program on the command line orn make sure that /usr/bin is in your path

waiting for X server to shutdown
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i wrote it again without -e and it worked and launched my twm and mwm both but I can't get the xterm running. is it possible that xterm is not installed? I thought xterm should be part of the X window system installation? or am I wrong? then I will have to install xterm as well!

Code:

xinit <path to my window manager>

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by the way i never have any file like .xinitrc or .xserverrc...strange!

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