Re: xdm 4.2.0pre1v1 troubles
Does gdm start and present a login window? What does it do when you
attempt to log in? Have you tried each of the various sessions it
gives you?
One of them usually starts X in some very conservative way, like with
twm or something. That should be a good place to start. The Xsession
option should at least fall through to X running xterm with no window
manager. If not, it's really easy to experiment with sessions. Just
add files to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ that do what you want.
For instance, you could have /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/minimal:
#!/bin/sh
# minimal
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
EOF
Or, /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/stupid:
#!/bin/sh
# stupid
exec xclock
EOF
Or, /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/just_run_gnome_session
#!/bin/sh
# Skip all the fancy stuff and just launch Gnome!
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000
You get the idea. Make sure they are chmod 755'ed, or they won't show
up in the list. kdm does the same kind of thing, but the sessions are
all defined in one long file.
Russell
> also sprach Russell Neches <russell@ccs.neu.edu> [2002.07.22.0449 +0200]:
> > elsewhere. I've tweaked kdm and gdm to fix exactly this problem, so I
> > would imagine that xdm works similarly (since gdm and kdm are
> > derivative of xdm).
>
> i couldn't get gdm to work, kdm seems to work. care to share your
> configuration with me?
>
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