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Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly



Thus spake Jerome Acks Jr:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Try changing /etc/esound/esd.conf so that auto_spawn=1
> 
> -- 
> Jerome
That fixed that.
Thanks,
Steve
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