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Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly



On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:11:38PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
| Thus spake dman:
| > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:29:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
| > | Thus spake dman:
| > | > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
| > 
| > | > | Similar issues with xnumlock - no longer starts when the user logs in.
| > | > | I have selected the Debian option - it looks like that most closely
| > | > 
| > | > Where is xnumlock run from?  The 'Xsession' option uses the ~/.xsession
| > | > file, I think.  The 'Gnome' option uses the ~/.gnomerc (also a
| > | > sh-script, doesn't need to exec gnome-session).
| > |
| > | I am running it with the Debian option, which reads the users ~/.xsession 
| > | for configuration.  numlockx (not xnumlock - sorry about that) is run
| > | from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which I would think would be checked
| > | whenever the X server starts.  Odd.
| > 
| > I think xinitrc will only be read if 'startx' is used to start X and
| > not if [xgkw]dm is used.
|
| That's unfortunate - I suppose if using one of the display managers,
| the best place for it is now back in the user's ~/.xsession?

Yes, and 'startx' uses that too.  Just use ~/.xsession and drop
~/.xinitrc altogether.

| I would prefer to set it globally, if possible.

I'm sure it's possible, but I haven't looked to see where.

-D

-- 

A violent man entices his neighbor
and leads him down a path that is not good.
        Proverbs 16:29



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