Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?

[Michael Merten <ironfoot@popaccount.com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:21:47PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote:
> > On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote:
> >   |  Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no
> >   |  gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it
> >   |  shows only 1 workspace).
> >   |  
> > Are you sure ~/.xsession is being ignored?  What does your file look
> > like?  I somehow doubt the problem is with icewm.
> 
> At the moment this is my .xsession:
> ---------------------------------
> # xsetroot -solid slategrey &
> # xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
> # xmodmap ~/.xmodmap-Johann &
> # icewm-gnome &      
> # xterm &
> # ical &
> # exec /usr/bin/panel&
> wmaker &
> xterm &
> ical &

Change that to something like:

   ical &
   xterm &
   exec wmaker

and make sure .xsession is executable, then try it again. 

HTH,
Mike

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