Trying to summarize what I have found.
Default X resolution with QEMU is too big, I set it to the minimum size: 1024x768 with:
root@debian:/home/paul# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/paul.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "mydev"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "mymon"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "myscr"
Monitor "mymon"
Device "mydev"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
root@debian:/home/paul#
When using xterm inside .xinitrc, it works.
But starting any shell with twm's menu, it open a windows with the error: Failed to fdwalk: Too many open files in the system
Here is my .initrc file:
root@debian:/home/paul# cat .xinitrc
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources &
xsetroot -solid gray &
# xterm -geometry +0+60 -ls &
# xconsole -geometry -0+0 -fn 5x7 &
exec twm
root@debian:/home/paul#
The cursor tend to go away... I can see some artifacts when moving the mouse... and this why I commented out xterm line, seems the
less programs I have, the more the cursor stay visible... Without my own .xinitrc, I sometimes loose the cursor even on the host, strangely.
Also, I do "startx" to start Xorg (with twm)... when I do Ctrl-C, I have to "su", "ps a", and "kill -9 [pid of Xorg]" as the normal user, does not seems able to stop the Xorg instance launched as root.
Looking at:
I can see that fdwalk seems to have a fallback implementation there, when it is not on the system.
I suppose there is an equivalent for Debian/Hurd on:
That's it for now.