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Old 14th July 2012
daemonfowl daemonfowl is offline
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The grey screen (and sometimes the green screen !) happens when a machine fails to meet the gnome 3 requirements (my case with Acer Aspire 5610) .. I suggested that you experiment with another non-problematic window manager (kde , xfce4 , ...) .. your X is working since xdm once worked.I mentioned X -configure for the info only since you asked.
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Do I need both? if yes then why?
I don't need any and you won't .. xinit (or startx) /path/to/new_window_manager would suffice when you want to use a newly installed window manager ! I gave you examples.
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