Re: how to configure users X setup?
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:29:25 +1000
M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com> wrote:
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> In much the same situation, on an old Toshiba laptop, 64 MB RAM and
> 10 GB hard drive, Etch installed, using fluxbox window manager and I
> created an ~/.Xsession just as your example above. With is file the
> machine boots to XDM and when the user name and password are inserted
> appropriately, just keeps coming back to XDM login.
>
> So I have to kill the GUI and get in through CLI and remove the
> ~/.Xsession script and then restart with startx.
>
> So there must be something wrong, either with the scrip, or something
> the script interferes with? I wonder if it works for Zach?
>
> I had hoped that I would be able to get gkrellm and the Rox panel to
> run after fluxbox has started. This should possibly be able to be
> placed in the ~/.fluxbox/init script, but it won't happen. Mainly
> because even though I have googled extensively, and read the fluxbox
> wiki and all the documentation I could find, none had the answer.
> Created startup scrips and such, have not had any joy with any of
> these.
>
> I just thought that maybe the "Debian way" you described above might
> be the way to go.
Could you show us the contents of the ~/.Xsession file? The contents of
the file /etc/X11/Xsession.options could be relevant too.
--
Liam
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