"Thomas H. George" <tom@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems.
>
> I can only stop gdm as root.
>
> If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same
^^^
gdm too? That's strange ...
> problems. If I run startx as root it opens gnome and if I try to
> switch users to tom its a no-op, the desktop remains open with root
> as the user.
I can't imagine where your problems come from, but I would try to
create a new user with 'adduser testuser' (as root), shutdown gdm, login
as that user and try startx and then some apps. If this works then
compare ownership/permissions for homedir, dotfiles, ...
BTW, the box you were comparing permissions with, does it also run
etch? How/when was the user 'tom' created. Do you have other users on
this box?
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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