dear matthew :c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the above two problems
try Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F6 will switch to vitual consoles.... where u can log in... cheers venu :I downloaded the GNOME 1.0 distribution with apt, installed, put the : :"exec gnome-session" : :line in my .xsession file, and quit X to try out what I had done. Oops. : :I could have done the smart thing and logged out as Root before I put :any GNOME startup stuff in a .xsession, but NOOO. I was too eager for :that. Now, I can't get out of xdm at all if I try to log in as Root; if :I try to log in with one of the user accounts, Enlightenment breaks -- :possibly because they had existing .enlightenment directories from the :0.14 that came with Slink. : :I wouldn't have a problem, except that I can't figure out how to get out :of XDM and into another virtual console so that I could fix stuff (well, :maybe I'd still have a problem, but I wouldn't be completely stuck in XDM :where I can't do anything) : :So, any ideas about : :a) why X won't start as root (the account with "exec gnome-session" in :the .xsession file) : :b) why Enlightenment isn't working on user accounts with no GNOME startup :instructions : :or :