On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found > > that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. > > startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old > > xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log > > > > My summary of the differences follows. > > > > Any insights to direct further studies? > > I would only note that startx and xdm don't necessarily look at the same > startup files. xdm looks for .xsession and startx looks for .xinitrc.
I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read because of the xterm settings. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120728155202.GF29181@tal
