Re: removing xdm
>From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises,
http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:29:46PM -0500, Moses Wildermuth wrote:
>
>> OK, I removed task-x-window and xdm. and now I can get in. but I can't
>> run startx script, I have to use xinit directly. Don't know why yet.
> WHY can't you run startx? Is it not there (xbase-clients installed?) or
> does it fail (with which message)?
When I launch starrtx, X starts to run, then suddenly quits. I don't
remember entire error messages on VT. It mainly said waiting for X to
exit. Then exited normally. So I ran xinit and took off that way.
Ok, this is the xdm login. did you install a window manager? I recommend
> fvwm, its small but functional.
But how can I get past this pesky login to get to use a window manager? And
by install do you mean insert into the startx script? like if I run my
startx twm will start too.
I might have fvwm, it sounds familiar but I'm not sure. I have been putzing
around with twm(I was familiar with that from AmiWin X emulati0on by Holger
KRuse) I was wondering if Amiwm would work, and actually trying to get
gnome.
I usually do not use gnome or fancy window
> managers, especially not on m68k.
I always go all out for appearance balanced with functionality, of course my
definition of functional may not = any one elses. :-} I want a fancy one
just to say I did it. Debian and X have been very fast on my simple
040/40warp engine, and I wanna push it a little.
xdm generates a logfile in
> /var/log/xdm.log, it tells you about problems with the xserver. If you
> have a user config problem, .xsession-errors might tell you more. _Some_
> logfile will tell you whats wrong. If all of this does not work, you might
> want to read about strace, but I would use this only as the last resort
> (ok, gdm is probably the last resort...)
ok, I can check those logs, but I am fairly sure, that X itself is fine, its
something in my startx script that is making it quit. possibly something I
put there, when I had X running the first time. After rebooting this dang
password got in the way and hosed everything up.
>
>> No I did not. Others are familiar with this phenomenom on several
> lists, no
>> one knows a clean solution. Maybe I had one good idea come thru but I
>> lost
> security by obscurity? "several" lists, sorry, I did not hear about it on
> debian-x nor on debian-m68k, did I overlook it?
>
Sorry, I got 2-3 responses from different users who had seen the problem on
newbies@xfree.com. I felt it more of an X problem than a debian specific
one anyway. Unfortunately some of the advice they gave me made the problem
worse. :-{ I thought one response was from debian-users, but could be
wrong, I dropped that list after third day. Very noisy.
>
Regards
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