Re: FreeBSD issues

Are you trying to X as Root?  If so try as a regular user, I know it's 
not supposed to work that way.  Yet if I X as root then I get a very 
strange colorless effect.  Although mine is so bad that I can't see 
anything.

Joshua
http://geocities.com/joshmia2001/

Douga Shmiffizeck wrote:

>hi all,
>i just installed X for 6th time on a freeBSD 4.6. did
>different installs - from the ports nad from sources i
>got from x.org and other mirrors. i haven't used X
>before but i've been using the command line for years
>now. i poked around and online but so far no big help.
>the issues are:
>1. no matter what environment i pick - gnome or
>sawfish - there isn't any colors. i reedited the
>server conf file gazillian times - same result - no
>colors which is the reason netscape doesn't show any
>images i guess...
>2. what is most annoying is that every time i open a
>menu on the window menager and sellect something the
>menu stays open - doesn't close up. and if i move a
>window i get this onion skin effect all over the
>screen. 
>3. i also suspect that if i select genome-session in
>my .xinitrc file i get gnome and sawfish and who knows
>what else runnung.
>i don't really have a lot of time to sit for the next
>week and go through all the files and figure out stuff
>myself.
>i was hoping to get some information how to solve the
>above issues here...  onece and for all...
>
>thanks.
>
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