Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello listers,
> I have just decided to give GDM a try on a box running Woody. I have
> found oddly, that esd no longer exits when the user does. Before I
> used GDM, when the user logged out of their X session (which was
> started by startx) esd died neatly for them. If I switch to VT, I can
> log in and kill hte esd process without problems, but I figure the
> computer is better at tedious tasks than I am, so I would like some
> method to make it do this for me.
> Similar issues with xnumlock - no longer starts when the user logs in.
> I have selected the Debian option - it looks like that most closely
> emulates the scripts used by startx, but it seems to be ignoring them.
> Am I right in assuming that I should just put an entry for xnumlock in
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and something like killall esd in
> /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default. Seems kind of clumsy to me, as there
> are already X scripts in place for this, and duplication seems
> unnecessary.
> Any ideas/enlightenment/pointers to better docs? Have been reading
> both man gdm, the gdm.conf that comes with the package, and the html
> docs from it as well.
> TIA,
> Steve
> --
> While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
> -- Dean Rusk
Try changing /etc/esound/esd.conf so that auto_spawn=1
--
Jerome
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