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Author: Ralph Ronnquist
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] window manager fails to connect to XServer
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 06:31:05PM -0400, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 07:47:41AM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> >
> > The display server, Xorg, writes a log in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
> > The Xsession scripting invoked by startx writes a log in ~/.xsession-errors
> >
> > Is there's something in those?
>
> The short answer is no.
>
> in Xorg.0.log no WW or EE
>
> In .xsessionn-errrors
>
> dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
>
> But are :0 and :O.O any different? 
>     $ env | grep DISPLAY
>     DISPLAY=:0.0

>
> xmodmap: unable to open file '/home/haines/.Xmodmap' for reading
> xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
>
> Never needed .Xmodmap. It is not present
>
> There are many lines like these:
>
> Failed to read: session.ignoreBorder
> Setting default value
>
> I assume this because no window manager was loaded.


Ok. Peculiar. Could you share your ~/.xinitrc? It's highly unusual for
Xorg to terminate prematurely without logging.

So secondly, please remove those log files and make another test
running startx, to see exactly which logging is produced. Btw note
that you run startx as no-root user; if as root then Xorg will log to
/var/log/Xorg.0.log rather.

Ralph.

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