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Re: X problems



On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:01:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Meaning that the session probably gets started and terminates immediately,
> > e.g. because some program doesn't exist or fails.
> > 
> > You really have to check where and how wdm invokes the session and try to find
> > out what goes wrong.
> 
> the same as xdm, it runs /etc/X11/Xsession which, if it exists will
> run ~/.xsession otherwise it runs twm or an xterm as a failsafe.  if
> your ~/.xsession is bogus you will get kicked out right away since
> when .xsession exits your X session exits.

And in that case you want to read ~/.xession-errors.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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