On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:20 PM, AgentM wrote: >> xdm doesn't have auto-login, you would have to start it as part of an >> su script... > > I installed xdm just to try it out and for comparison to gdm, but > have run in to some issues. It starts up (/etc/init.d/xdm start), > shows a grey background image with a fat X for a mouse curser, and > then closes.
It sounds like xdm just started X but failed its own initialization- xdm should present a simple authentication window. X will quit if there is nothing for it to do. Check the logs for xdm messages. > > I'll install gdm and see how that goes. I would recommend this instead if HD space isn't an issue. Plus, it will pull in most of the dependencies so that the users can run gnome apps. |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
