On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Bob wrote:
> When any user is selected and logged in, some primitive
> window manager comes up and the only thing that can be seen
> on a pure black screen is a terminal window without any
> frame. No color bar or buttons on the top. Tried to run
> startx, but no go -- display in use.
No frame usually means no window manager.
I assume you are in some fail-safe mode (where only an xterm is started,
probably because no window manager is available).
You can still attempt to start your window manager by running it from that
terminal window.
You can't run startx (with defaults) because X is already running.
> Does anybody know how to restore the usual Mandrake sign on
> that allows KDE, Gnome, etc to start?
See if you have "startkde" (or "gnome-session").
Also, look at your ~/.xsession file.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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