Re: .xsession and xdm

[Chris Hoover <choover@home.com>]

Eric,

  Thanks for the help.  It turned out that my .xinitrc file did not have the
executable bit set.

Thanks,

chris
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:

> >
> > I have linked my working .xinitrc file to .xsession so that I could run
> > xdm.  However, every time I log in, xdm does not seem to execute the
> > .xsession file as stated in the man pages.  Could someone tell me what
> > is going on, and how to fix it?
>
> Things to check:
>
> - is your .xinitrc executable as .xsession should be?
> - do you get any clues written in ~/.xsession-errors?
> - do you have a line 'allow-user-xsession' in /etc/X11/config?
>
> HTH,
> Eric
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