On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found > that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. > startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old > xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log > > My summary of the differences follows. > > Any insights to direct further studies?
I would only note that startx and xdm don't necessarily look at the same startup files. xdm looks for .xsession and startx looks for .xinitrc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120727173149.gd3...@infotech.vrg.org