X11 configuration

Nefarious · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:05

My X11 config seems to have gone utterly FUBAR, yet the system is still otherwise running fine so BUNDY.

It seems to have changed the windows manager to metacity (I think), for no particular reason. The result being that I have lost all the nice functionality that goes with having a GUI.

Is there a commandline function that I can run to reconfigure everything or similar?

rsatd · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:17

It used to be x11 tab tab would bring up some conf option which you can use to reset your config, but I was under the impression that it was .xinitrc that dictated window managers.

Nefarious · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:34

But is there a way of reconfiguring windows from the command line rather than having to sift through endless reams of text when I'm not that bothered as to the specific setup of windows just that it exists?

rsatd · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:38

${EDITOR} .xinitrc

Should see something like "exec xfce4-session" Where instead of xfce, you would have your window manager. Also forgot to mention, its in your users home directory.

Nefarious · 27 Jan 2010 at 00:57

I ought to have mentioned, it's CentOS 5.2

rsatd · 27 Jan 2010 at 08:21

Is it still unhappy?

Have a little read here it should throw you into the right direction, but if a strange and unexpected window manager gets started instead of the one you normally use, it should be defined in xinitrc

When the startx command is executed, it searches for the .xinitrc file in the user's home directory to define the desktop environment and possibly other X client applications to run. If no .xinitrc file is present, it uses the system default /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file instead.