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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] TIP: when xdm terminates immediately after login
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:41:51
Message-Id: 20060816222723.GA6624@nibiru.local
1 Hi folks,
2
3 just a little tip, for the archive:
4 (took me some time to track this down)
5
6 If you're using xdm and your session terminates immediately
7 after login (w/o any clients started), you'll maybe have an
8 bad ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients file and also no xsm installed.
9
10 The script /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession is called by xdm after login.
11 This one now tries to call ~/.xsession (NOTE: *no* capitals!).
12 Here you the user has to put its individual stuff, ie. starting
13 the windowmanager, etc. Ah, this file, of course, has to be
14 executable.
15
16 If ~/.xession is missing or not executable, the Xsession script
17 tries to call xsm as last resort. But if nothing could be started,
18 the X session will terminate and xdm login prompt comes back.
19
20
21 cu
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24 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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26 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
27 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
28 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
29 http://patches.metux.de/
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