Gray Screen in X Windows

[Don Miguel]

Hi there,

I'm Running RedHat 7.2

I upgraded XFree86 and now my display settings are wrong or something.

I ran Xconfigurator and everything looked cool in the test, but it doesn't seem to work right when I start it up myself.


If I run 'X' I get a gray and white checkered screen and that's it

If I run 'startx' I get some xterm windows, but it's like the desktop manager is missing or something.

I'm not really familiar enough with Linux to understand the difference between KDE and GNOME, but I think I chose KDE during my original install.

Any help would be appreciated.

-DMdSF

[JohnT]

Try
# startkde

[saiho]

Try to put a file called .xinitrc in your ~home directory.
Here is an example of a .xinitrc content. If you still get nothing, then you need to go in to /etc/X11/X86Config or X86Config-4 and change the configuration of you video card(or run setup in the shell to get the gui interface).


###
#Start
#Window Maker default X session startup script
PATH="$PATH:/usr/share/WindowMaker/bin"

#some other comments.
#next line is where you can execute the x window manager
#in this example, I'm running wmaker.

exec wmaker

#or if you want to run kde
#also remember to change your path from the top
exec kdestart

#EOF
####

hope this help,
saiho

[Don Miguel]

startkde doesn't exist on my system

[Don Miguel]

I guess I'm actually using GNOME.

None of the KDE files seem to exist and the GNOME ones do...

[teeitup]

exec gnome-session maybe?

[JohnT]

Or startgdm

[Don Miguel]

This forum rules... I can't imagine how much time I would have spent trying to figure that out.

I am using gnome.

I added exec gnome-session to my .xinitrc and everything just works.

Thank You :)