Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect ... Sell me on Linux

From: John Campbell (jfcampbell_at_aol.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: 23 Feb 2004 21:36:21 -0800

darthaggie@cflarg.arg (I R A Darth Aggie) wrote in message news:<

>
> The /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory should be automagically created by the X
> server. That it isn't is troubling.

James, my apologies. When I responded to Dances With Crows, I
unintentionally spawned a new thread. Bottom line, is that I
followed his advice and I'm past the problem.

Forgive me again if I should be offering a pointer rather than a
repost,
but here is my earlier reply in the thread where it should have
appeared:

Dances with Crows wrote of:
>> ... Red Hat stuff installed
>> on top of SuSe stuff.

>Whoa. That isn't good. Try the installation again--I recommend the
>Redhat CD, since ISTR Redhat 6.1 was a bit newer than SuSE 6.1.

>Move any data you want to save, and have the installer format the
>partition--not "format and check", which takes too long.

> Hope the Redhat install works this time!

It did. I allowed RedHat to reformat existing partitions (did not
change geometry) ...

>Apparently Redhat 6.1 just brought up X without
>problems for both the posters.

... and took every default that was offered.

>... To get any real work done, you'll want
>a better window manager than the minimal twm, but I found KDE 1
pretty
>slow on a Thinkpad 380D (P150, 48M, 2G disk).

Yep I might have trouble getting real work done. But so far I'm
expermenting.

The very few cases where I had to make choice:
- Install Gnome workstation vs. Install KDE workstation.
I chose Gnome, thinking (based only on your KDE comment above)
that it might be lower-overhead.

- Monitor. I had no clue here.
 The monitor is built in, I don't have any kind of model number.
I chose "Custom, 800x600, 8 bit, and 50-70Hz" based on a Solo 2100
poster's
config.

So I have a screen, but the useful part is mighty small.
There's about a 1-to-2-inch border of dead space.
The desktop fits into the useful space, but it looks as if the bottom
of
a Netscape window wants to bleed down into the black part.

So I probably have more digging to do before I get the screen just
right.

Thanks for all the help. I'll keep you posted.

John Campbell
Haddonfield, NJ

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