Hello listers, I have just decided to give GDM a try on a box running Woody. I have found oddly, that esd no longer exits when the user does. Before I used GDM, when the user logged out of their X session (which was started by startx) esd died neatly for them. If I switch to VT, I can log in and kill hte esd process without problems, but I figure the computer is better at tedious tasks than I am, so I would like some method to make it do this for me. Similar issues with xnumlock - no longer starts when the user logs in. I have selected the Debian option - it looks like that most closely emulates the scripts used by startx, but it seems to be ignoring them. Am I right in assuming that I should just put an entry for xnumlock in /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and something like killall esd in /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default. Seems kind of clumsy to me, as there are already X scripts in place for this, and duplication seems unnecessary. Any ideas/enlightenment/pointers to better docs? Have been reading both man gdm, the gdm.conf that comes with the package, and the html docs from it as well. TIA, Steve -- While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. -- Dean Rusk
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