Hi folks, just a little tip, for the archive: (took me some time to track this down)
If you're using xdm and your session terminates immediately after login (w/o any clients started), you'll maybe have an bad ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients file and also no xsm installed. The script /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession is called by xdm after login. This one now tries to call ~/.xsession (NOTE: *no* capitals!). Here you the user has to put its individual stuff, ie. starting the windowmanager, etc. Ah, this file, of course, has to be executable. If ~/.xession is missing or not executable, the Xsession script tries to call xsm as last resort. But if nothing could be started, the X session will terminate and xdm login prompt comes back. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
