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From: conway@hplb29a.HPL.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 & ksh?
Message-ID: <2750001@hplb29a.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 88 19:12:02 GMT
References: <3429@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: hplabs bld 29 Palo Alto
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/ hplb29a:comp.windows.x / spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) /  5:52 pm  Mar  3, 1988 /
> 
> 
> When I run xinit, I get the message about waiting for the server to
> start, followed by an continuing line of dots.  A ps shows the X server
> running, but the characteristic root window never shows up.  If I
> switch to the csh or Bourne shell and log in again, everything behaves
> just fine and starts up properly.
> 

> Gene Spafford

I had a similar problem when I first tried to run X windows - it would
not run with csh, displaying similar problems to what you describe.  It
would run with sh or ksh, though.  After considerable head-scratching,
I finally tracked to problem down to two environment variables that
were being set in .cshrc: XFONTPATH and DISPLAY.  It turned out that
these were bogus, and were left over from some incorrect X installation
documentation that I had gotten.  Try looking at your environments with
the different shells; I'll bet that you have some bad environment
variable set with ksh.

Dan Conway
Hewlett-Packard
Palo Alto, CA
dan_conway@hplabs.hp.com
. . . hplabs!dan_conway