help with Xorg (Adam Jackson)

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:21:08 -0500 "Perez Rodriguez, Humberto I"
<humberto.i.perez.rodriguez at linux.intel.com> said:

> Hi Adam :
> 
> 
> with '-retro' option now i can a gray background and the cursor, but i 
> am not able to do anything else, could you point me in how to do in 
> order to run some X clients against my X server please ?

switch to another VT (ctl+alt+f2 or whatever) then log in, and

export DISPLAY=:0
xterm

i am assuming the xserver is coming up as the default :0 one. also assuming you
have xterm installed.

> On 7/31/2017 12:43 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 12:15 -0500, Perez Rodriguez, Humberto I wrote:
> >> Hi Adam :
> >>
> >> there is the full log
> > This log appears to show a successful startup. You say you only see a
> > blank screen, but a black background with no cursor is in fact the
> > default. If you're simply trying to test whether X works, the '-retro'
> > command line option will paint the old root weave and X cursor. But
> > otherwise X doesn't draw anything on its own, and you will need to
> > actually run some X clients against your X server if you want to see
> > anything.
> >
> > - ajax
> 
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