Re: Xwindows not starting maybe AfterStep problem

Lars Torben Wilson (torben@coastnet.com)
25 May 1998 12:32:01 -0700 

Keith Alen Vance <nfn11988@naples.net> writes:

> afterstep 1.4. The problem is that if I do a startx it returns an error 
> that it can't find afterstep.So if I go in to the .xinitrc file and 
> comment the afterstep line out xwindows starts and then shuts down 
> without any error messages. What I am saying is that it starts and then 
> automatically shutdown right away. I really screwed things up when I was 

X is just the window system--pretty much unusable without a window
manager, such as AS. Also, X by itself won't stay running; the last
program in your .xinitrc will be the one which keeps X running, and
kills X when you exit it. So what's happening is that now X has no
reason to stay running, so it doesn't.

So all you need to do is to find the afterstep binary (should have
been installed in /usr/X11/bin), either move or symlink it to the
appropriate dir (or just alter .xinitrc) and replace the line in your
.xinitrc (without any trailing ampersand).

> extracting the xfree86 files. I extracted them in the wrong directory at 
> least once. So my hard drive is almost full. Is there a way I can delete 
> files by date. I would really like to totally back out of everything that 
> I have done today and start over with a fresh kernel and the bare 

If you've just been unpacking tarballs, the files will likely not be
dated today--they'll have retained the dates they had before
packaging. If you've been using Debian packages or rpms, things should 
be easier, but I'm afraid I can't help you with those...

> necessities. I am reluctant to just wipe my drive because I installed 
> Linux via ftp and that takes awhile. Any suggestions would be great.
> 
> Thank You,
> Keith


Torben

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