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#1 2014-10-19 15:31:33
- jaredwindover
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garbled text-mode after startx xfce and logout
Hi everybody,
I've been having this problem for a while. I've got an xfce DE and it works quite well except for one bugaboo: whenever I logout to go back to my terminal, my screen is hopelessly garbled and requires a reboot. Any ideas of what to try? X doesn't seem to be reporting any errors when it stops, so I'm assuming I have some kind of config issue going on. Not sure where I should be looking.
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#2 2014-10-19 17:32:13
- karol
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Re: garbled text-mode after startx xfce and logout
How exactly do you start X / xfce?
What do you see in the terminal, does it look like a log or just some weird characters? What happens if you blindly type 'reset'?
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#3 2014-10-19 20:42:15
- jaredwindover
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Re: garbled text-mode after startx xfce and logout
Hi Karol, I tried to attach an image but that didn't work. Here's the picture. It looks to me like a corrupted buffer rather than a log or random characters, especially since I can make out features of what was there before and of what I type. Doing a reset doesn't fix it (though it does replace it with somewhat more uniform garbling. I'm starting x/xfce with startx and a pretty basic xinitrc file that just calls exec startxfce4. 
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