Originally posted by Cliff Corner:
Is there any way lesstif could have changed anything in a negative way? .xinitrc is just:
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# Window Maker default X session startup script
PATH="$PATH:/bin"
# If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear
# in the console window.
#
# tail -f /var/root/.xsession-errors > /dev/console &
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I just found out lesstif left a directory behind, /usr/local/Lesstif, even though i did a pkg remove of it.
Also, I can start x from /usr/x11r6/bin/x -quartz and it just gives me a grey screen.
I remember x used to start and give me xterm (and xclock or something), and once windowmaker was installed, they stopped appearing on startup. Is it possible that there might need to be a link to them or else i have no way of communicating with x?
once again any help is appreciated, and thanks for previous advice.[/quote]
Your problem is/was you had NO window manager set to start when X starts -- X by itself wont get you more than a grey screen.