[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > I know just enough to be dangerous here. I don't use gnome myself so > take this with some caution. But a friend told me that the gnome > login manager looks for ~/.gnomeprofile. I am told it needs execute > permission whereas normally .profiles do not and should not need this. > Also, gdm runs a .gnomerc if it exists. This must start up a gnome > session if it does exist but can do whatever else you want. (Like run > ssh-agent.) This is all hearsay for me but perhaps it will help.
Thanks for the pointer. I find no reference to ~/.gnomeprofile on my system (Gnome 1.4 under Debian Woody). But, creating a ~/.gnomerc containing just "umask 002" does indeed work around the problem. Execute permission is not required, the file is sourced, not exec-ed. Still seems like a bug to me, though. Nowhere else in Debian do I need to perform any special configuration magic to login with user groups working smoothly and transparently. Is this problem specific to Gnome and gdm, or do all the X session startups behave this way? -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
