Yes, Scott. That was me. All I want to do is use a CAD program in
Debian Sparc, yet the upgrade to Woody has messed my former X
configuration. I guess I'll have to try more options under
update-alternatives. I'll try the --display option next.
Mario
>Mario, I can't remember if you were the one having trouble with
>Debian and Window managers, but here's something that may help
>whoever it was.
>
>I would try using the middle, left, and right mouse buttons to see
>if you can get some type of menu when you are in X. I know the
>window manager sawfish doesn't give you much of anything on the
>screen.
>
>Also, I would get a virtual terminal with ctrl-alt-F2 and then do a
>ps aux to see what processes are running, and what window manager if
>any.
>
>Thirdly, it almost seems like you have some type of X session
>manager running. I think xdm gives a small xterm window when it
>starts X. Try update-alternatives --display x-session-manager to
>see if anything is pointed to.
>
>
>
> scott
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