Re: .xsession crashes X (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:29:37 -0800, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I need to create a file .xsession to fill with the following settings:
>> 
>> >> export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
>> >> export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
>> >> export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
>> >> export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
>> >> export LANG=ja_JP.utf8
>> 
>> 
>> But when I create a file named .xsession, whatever I put in there,
>> even also nothing, X doesn't manage to start: it crashes when
>> starting.



Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> writes:


> I don't think that X crashes, it simply exits because it has processed
> all the commands and there is nothing left to do. (You do not start a
> window manager or any X clients in your session, so it terminates
> immediately.)


>>            How to solve the problem?  Maybe should I name it with
>> another name?
>
> How do you normally start X? Which desktop environment/window manager
> are you using? KDE, for example, has its own way of setting
> environmental variables for the whole session.



I use Gnome and normally start X typing the command `startx'.

Thanks
Rodolfo