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| Hactar... |
 Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:00 pm |
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In a fit of madness a few days ago, I tried running compiz, seeing as
how it was already installed (why?) and I wanted to try it out. Well, it
failed, wouldn't run. Something about another window manager already
running as I recall. That's fine, but it also exited uncleanly and hosed
some other stuff, and the hosage persists over a restart:
- bash is not run as a login shell before X starts, so my variables
arenn't set. To run my newsreader (trn) and have it work right, I have
to do "exec bash -l" in a terminal before I can run it in that terminal
only;
- my .xinitrc isn't run, which means my mouse isn't set up and some other
commands I have in there aren't run;
- Firefox won't launch helper programs, most commonly evince to handle
PDFs;
- and I just found out that pine (my newsreader) runs xine to view movies,
when it used to run (and I prefer) mplayer.
Is there a common, simple cause for all these symptoms?
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