Re: KDM - Some minor buggies
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 at 7:50 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > but entering the user name works?
> >
> > No. I do get the user name into the name field by clicking on a
> > user-id icon.
>
> ah. then it's probably the usual "vt7 is missing at the end of the
> Xserver line" problem, which causes a race between the server and a
> getty. the fact, that it works when started from command line
> supports this.
Bravo. Bravissimo.... and Much thanks ... that's it!!!!!!
in file /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers I changed:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
to
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
Ivan (or is anyone in Debian listening?) They also might be
aware of a reason for leaving the vt7 out!
> > Yes they are installed and testing from a xterm prompt, they
> > (afterstep, pawm, fvwm, wmaker) all tell me nicely and correctly
> > that another windowmanager (kde) is running.
>
> strange. it's probably something with the Xsession script ... maybe,
> add -x to the first line (#! /bin/sh -x) to get an execution log in
> kdm.log / ~/.xsession-errors .
OK .. It looks like afterstep (session I tried) is found and then it
starts up /usr/bin/x-session-manager which is symlinked to
/etc/alternatives/x-session-manager which is symlinked to kde2
I think I've found my "shot in the leg" repair from several months
ago. I might have done it to let me get into kde. Unfortunately
I was not a good boy and didn't keep a copy of existing
x-session-manager! I will look into this later on.
> > Some additional info:
> > 1) I have modified /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession to include
> > xscreensaver-command -exit
> > xscreensaver -no-splash -silent &
> > to enable xscreensaver when the KDM login screen is displayed.
> > The kdm frozen keyboard and chooser problem do NOT go away
> > when I remove the xscreensaver commands from Xsession.
>
> Xsession is the wrong file ... you mean Xsetup, right?
Correct! I had made the modification in two places ... only need it in
Xsetup!
> > 2) When kdm failed on me (recently) I used startx and kdm started
> > - the kdm keyboard was NOT frozen.
>
> you mean, both startx and kdm worked (independently from each other),
> right?
I believe so... unfortunately, I can't test that. At times kdm fails
and I'm stuck without X on Woody and I will try whatever I can to start
it. But since you are listening - Is there any way to put back either
the CTRL-R (probably from xdm days) or the 'return to system console'
which was in KDE 2.1 KDM and is not in KDE 2.2 KDM? I do use
the ALT-Fn keys but I don't think they are active during KDM Login.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Michael
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Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.com Seattle, WA
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