Lost user X terminal after Gnome inst.

[tstc]

1st-What a great site!
I installed kdebase3 w/Apple's X as per instructions. Downloaded X-chat and saw that several gnome packages were included, so...being my usual tinkering self, I downloaded and installed gnome. Chose sawfish as my wm but got nothing but a transparent window with top and bottom application bars. Tried to startkde...nada.
Root gets a X terminal, but not a normal user.
I've completely removed X as per instructionshere (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8704)
reinstalled, but the same thing happens...no user terminal.
I guess I could just remove that user and start all over but I'd lose all my settings and preferences. Any ideas

[sao]

tstc wrote:
I installed kdebase3 w/Apple's X as per instructions.
Which instructions did you followed?
tstc wrote:
I downloaded and installed gnome
Whick package and what method: binary/source/FinkCommander?
Please give us the following info:

'sw_vers'
'fink -V'
'gcc -v'

And the result of: 'fink list -i'
tstc wrote:
but the same thing happens...no user terminal
What do you mean? What are the messages?

[tstc]

Originally posted by sao
Which instructions did you followed?

Whick package and what method: binary/source/FinkCommander?
Please give us the following info:

'sw_vers'
'fink -V'
'gcc -v'

And the result of: 'fink list -i'

What do you mean? What are the messages?
#1 here (?here
#2 binary Fink, only via apt-get
#3 resullts of those operations will have to wait(Not @ machine)

I was hoping that this might sound familiar. Guess not.:(

[macphunky]

i think he lost his .xinitrc. you need to make a file ~/.Xinitrc and put in it what command you want executed just as X11 loads. the default is "exec xterm & exec quartz-wm" without quotes. do "exec xterm & exec startkde" for kde, etc.

[tstc]

thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. that's exactly what i needed.
Tom