Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

[Donnie Berkholz]

Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine.
> When I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy,
> with a nice Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a
> black screen (which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a wm that
> didn't exist). CAD, CAB, and CAF1 do nothing, and I'm forced to reboot
> via the power button. I do not know why it is doing this (perhaps bad
> permissions for fluxbox?), and I would prefer not to do everything as root.

Did you run etc-update? Make sure /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers says vt7 at the 
end. Try changing XSTATICVT in /etc/conf.d/xdm if you already have the 
vt7 set in Xservers.

> On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I
> can for GDM)?

Yeah it uses the fun Xresources stuff. You should be able to configure 
for your system in e.g. /etc/X11/app-defaults/xdm. See the xdm man page 
for details.

Thanks,
Donnie
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