Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com> writes:
>
> I verified it: my .xsession-errors stays empty :-(.
>
Under gdm/Gnome your errors go to .gnome-errors and/or .gnomerc-errors
(couldn't figure out when which file is used ...) instead of
.xsession-errors.
You should set debugging on in the gdm.conf (it's an option somewhere
at the end -- I don't use gdm any more ...), then look at the syslog
file for the results.
To start a window manager behind gdm, I went to the .gnome directory
and edited the file wm-default (or something like this, sorry, can't
remember the right name, but you should look after something like wm
or windowmanager): instead of gnome-wm I wrote icewm-gnome (put in
your preferred wm).
Hope that helps,
joachim
PS: I once posted a bug report about gdm not starting a wm, you may
look at the bug database at www.debian.org.
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