Cursor locked at startup

Question

Hi,
When I am loging into my DE (compiz alone or xmonad) with and init to 5 to start X directly and some modification to .zshrc
/etc/inittab
x:45:once:/bin/su lymphatik -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startx >/dev/null 2>&1"
.zshrc
if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
startx
# logout
fi
my mouse cursor is locked. I have to switch to another agetty (the ability to switch screen with Ctrl+Alt+F1-6. I actually don't know how it is called). And then when I am going back to this screen the mouse is unlocked.
I modified a bit the innittab according to that http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speedup_boot but even by reverting everything back it doesn't work.
And the only thing coming close to an error in the log is that my mouse is recognized as an Apple one and then back to a logitech mx1000 the real one.
Please tell me if you also need the X.log
Last edited by lymphatik (2009-09-26 21:09:08)

Answer 1

Ok.  First off,  you are trying to use 2 different shells.
Bash and zsh are 2 separate shell environments with different config files.
If you wanted to start with zsh, then you need to modify your inittab to start zsh rather than bash.
If you wanted to start with bash, then you would need to put that script into your ~/.bashrc file.
BTW, that script is set so that you can start your computer without needing anything like kdm, or gdm, or xdm, or slim, etc....  What the script does is start your X session and then logs out of the terminal.   It's pretty slick.    So, it means that you don't have to start X right away.
I'm telling you this so that you can make an informed decision on how you want to start things.  The way that you have it set up,  currently means that the script in .zshrc isn't being used, so that's not an issue.
What does your /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?