Re: stop gnome-session to record xterms?
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:21:19AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello,
Bonjour!
> i have the folowing problem: i can't log graphically on my computer unless i
> log into it on the console and edit the .gnome/session file by hand, because
> it is full of calls to xterms in a way that lets the windowmanager crash
> before the setup of the windowmanager is complete, blocking the console for
> about 5min, wihtout any chance for me to get a hand on it....
Blocking the console? You mean you can't use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill
the X server or use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to another VT?
> further since the windowmanager doiesn't recored where the xterms where they
> all clutter on the first virtual screen, this is buggy a mess and far from
> what i want....
>
> now reading the gnome doc, the control center is supposed to regulate this,
> but as it seems this is a rare case where the documentation is ahead of
> reality.....
gnome-session has been _tremendously_ buggy in my experience. Stay away from it
and manually launch panel and your WM from your .xsession file.
>
> so is there a way to stop gnome-session to record the session, or be able to
> use gdm without starting a gnome session? Thats another bug, i wanted to
> introduce gdm also on our server, but since this thing enforces use of gnome
> for all users its quite useless.... not everyone wants the big overhead of
> gnome....
All of the display managers I've used (wdm, xdm, kdm, and gdm), will respect
the .xsession file in a user's home directory and execute it upon logon.
> the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant.
> human population is growing....
Nice sig line :-)
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