New Debian install X problem

Antonio T. Sun antoniosun-N9AOi2cAC9ZBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 15 00:29:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:14:32 -0400, Daniel Armstrong wrote:

> These are the steps I typically take installing X on a Debian Squeeze
> box . . .

Thanks for the detailed steps, they are very helpful.

> * test by creating a user ~/.xinitrc and add *exec xterm* (no wm)...
> then 'startx'.. confirm that X is working

I used to test whether X is working or not by just starting Xorg, without 
any wm or xapp, hence no tweaking necessary to ~/.xinitrc. But I forgot 
how I did it now, anybody can help?

thanks

Antonio

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