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nice, i wouldn't have thought of chroot-ing onto a borked install to fix it.
Ico2 - re: your post on 20th Nov.:
"Q: how do i make xscreensaver load on startup in my hdinstall.

A: here goes:

install the xscreensavergtk dsl, open scite and load up /home/dsl/.xinitrc, edit it and just above the "fluxbox" line add the line: "xscreensaver -nosplash&" (without the quotes but with the &).
ctrl-alt-del, startx and away you go.
you can use the menu item for xscreensaver in order to edit prefs.".......................
Worked first time. I tried replicating the method for the doc apps wmpinboard,wmmoonclock and wmclock which I would like to see appear at boot - but no go.  Presumably WM itself needs to be installed for these three to work on boot?  (They do load via the fluxbox menu without WM installed)
Hold up, folks...
I think he means ctrl-alt-BKSP there  ,  :)   ,  NOT  ctrl-alt-DEL ..

and I do place my startups for dockapps in the .xinitrc..
Here's mine..

Quote

# put X windows programs that you want started here.
# Be sure to add at the end of each command the &
# grep noicons /proc/cmdline >/dev/null
# if [ $? != 0 ]; then
enhance &>/dev/null &
killall wmcpuload
wmcpuload -c 0 &
wmcpuload -c 1 &
wmclock &
wmdrawer &
xset s off s noblank
# fi
# dillo -f /usr/share/doc/dsl/getting_started.html &>/dev/null &
fluxbox


I didn't know about the -nosplash option in XScreensaver, Thanks !

...and sometimes you need the -w switch on the end for your
dockapps to "window" properly..

e.g.  "   wmrack -w &   "

73
ke4nt
a thing to remember is that the last application in the .xinitrc will kill the xserver when it closes, so it is sensible for it to be the wm rather than xterm or emelfm.

and ke4nt: ctrl-alt-del works fine for me :)
I just spotted my deliberate mistake "-nosplash" after the WM apps added into the /home/dsl/.xinitrc file.  Obvious really.
I went back in and left each of the WM dockapps named in one line each with a space then "&"
wmpinboard reboots to top left corner instead of bottom right,
wmmoonclock doesn't appear at all.
wmclock boots up to correct bottom right corner.
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