[NBLUG/talk] Need some help with XWindows

[Todd Cary]

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I messed up my XWindows for one user, "todd".


How?

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Not sure.  Maybe by overwriting the /home/todd dir (Fedora) with that from my RH 9.

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Describe the components....  What do you see on the screen.
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Rectangles that have remanents of a window, but the three of them are much smaller and near transparent.  They seem like dialogs that are missing text.

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switchdesk gnome
or 
switchdesk kde

Which ever you prefer.

Then try to start an X session as todd.
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Set runlevel to 3 and todd cannot create X; joe can.  Appears that XWindows has a permission problem with /tmp.

Todd

Mark Street wrote:

>On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:50 pm, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I messed up my XWindows for one user, "todd".
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>How?
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>>If I login as any other 
>>user, all is fine, but as "todd", there are some strange shaped
>>components on the screen.  I deleted the user "todd" and re-created him,
>>but the problem persists.
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>Describe the components....  What do you see on the screen.
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>>This appears to be a good opportunity to learn a little more about
>>XWindows on my "play computer".   What should I look at?
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>>From the command line as user todd, run 
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>switchdesk gnome
>or 
>switchdesk kde
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>Which ever you prefer.
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>Then try to start an X session as todd.
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