On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 08:12, Tom wrote: > > > The two files are chmodded to 644, and are owned by the respective > > > users. > > > > And what are the permissions and ownership on each, as a first step? > > Is the above not the answer to that question? *even more confused* > Both of the files are -rw-r--r--, and they are owned by the user and > belong to the group called after the user. > It is when I've been out of bed more than ten minutes - sorry. Just often the first problem I hear on such things. There are no stray non-printing characters in the file, I presume. If you copy it to be .xinitrc and do "startx -- :<first unused display>" from a console, does it work for you? Would you remember which file was written first - yours or the other one? > For a while, I thought perhaps the fact that wdm offers a menu out > of which the window manager can be chosen makes an .xsession file > superfluous (if that's the correct word), but then why does it work > with that one user? > > Greets, > Tom > > > -- > "Alles stimmt, gilt, nimmt teil und bildet > eine Vollzaehligkeit, in der nichts fehlt." -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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