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Re: gdm in unstable



My problem with GDM is far more cosmetic:
it no longer reads my .gtkrc to load with a gtk theme

Robert

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:25:09AM +0100, Marcus Geiger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got the same trouble with the Debian session.
> I fixed it by realizing that /etc/gdm/Sessions/Debian should not exec
> /etc/X11/Xsession. Instead it should source /etc/X11/Xsession. I figured
> this out be looking through the xdm session scripts. 
> 
> I did not send a bug report to the gdm maintainers.
> 
> Yours
> Marcus
> 
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:10:06PM +0100, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> > Dear list,
> > 
> > This is a followup to yesterday's "S3 Virge driver". I managed (don't ask how
> > ...) to fall back to the 3.3.6 SVGA X server and pals.
> > 
> > I notice that with the Sid (unstable) setup : GDM no longer works correctly :
> > gdm shows up and sets its initial screen. However, when a user logs in, the
> > display gesz black and the initial screen is restored.
> > 
> > My interpretation is that something kills X and GDM restarts like after a
> > normal logout. However, this leaves no indication in the various logs
> > (.xsession-errors, /var/log/gdm/:0.log, etc ...).
> > 
> > X / Gnome launched from a console work just fine ... as far as I can tell
> > 
> > Any idea about how to trace this ?
> > 
> > 					Emmanuel Charpentier
> > 
> > PS : If someone tried to answer my yesterday's post ("S3 Virge driver"), (s)he
> > had better send h{is|er} answer again. I made a nice typo that got me rid of
> > my current mail ...
> > 
> > --
> > Emmanuel Charpentier
> > 
> > 
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