Frederic Lepied wrote:
>
> Could you show us your ~/.xsession-errors ?
>
/usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession: /home/bor/.xsession: No such file or
directory /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession: exec: /home/bor/.xsession:
cannot execute: No such file or directory
This is due to the lines in /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession:
case "$sess" in
failsafe)
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0 $*
;;
""|default)
exec ~/.xsession $*
;;
esac
Now, the bug here is obvious. But some more comments:
- usually (a.k.a. on those Unices I was working with) "default" session
means "whatever is system-wide default" and ~/.xsession is executed if
exists. Or it is selected with "user session" (or similar name).
Acceptable logic for "default" is - execute ~/.xsession if exists else
default system session. I exepct some tool (in Mandrake Control Center)
that allows me to select systemwide default session 9KDE, Gnome, ...).
- the case of uid > 500 was just covered I have seen. Good :-)
- kdmrc lists the session types:
# Session types the users can select. It is advisable to have "default" and
# "failsafe" listed herein, which is also the default.
# Note, that the meaning of this value is entirely up to your Xsession script.
SessionTypes=default,kde,failsafe
I remember some people complainig that they cannot select anything but
KDE. Why no other sessions here? Of course, ideally we should have a
directory where every installed environment (KDE, Gnome, etc) would put
a file and this list should be selected dynamically based on this
directory contents. Why have I feeling it was the case before?
- I still could not find where "console login" is configured, but do not
forget it is broken as well.
-andrej
