For those interested, I've solved my problem with gdm2. It was of course
something stupid :P
apparently I've done `su` instead of `su -` when I installed the X and
Gnome ports. This caused the shell to adopt the umask of my normal user,
which is 027. Now the gnome hierarchy was installed accessibl
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> Have you tried gdmsetup?
yes, it works correctly, changes i make with gdmsetup do appeaar in gdm.conf, however
gdm keeps crashing with the same messages
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> Also, there is always kdm if you can't get it going.
I know, i've been using kdm for years now :) but installing kdm doesn't really
> >Apr 21 17:27:13 morreion gdmgreeter[541]: greeter_parse_config: No
> >configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults.
> >Apr 21 17:27:51 morreion gdmgreeter[567]: greeter_parse_config: No
> >configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults.
> >
> >These confuse me
> >Checking the messages log, I see the following warnings:
> >
> >Apr 21 17:27:13 morreion gdmgreeter[541]: greeter_parse_config: No
> >configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults.
> >Apr 21 17:27:51 morreion gdmgreeter[567]: greeter_parse_config: No
> >configuration file: /us
recently I installed the Gnome 2.6 port on my machine, and everything
works just fine when I start X via startx. However, when I try to start
gdm (using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh) as display manager i get an error
pop-up with the following text:
"The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will
Hi all,
recently I installed the Gnome 2.6 port on my machine, and everything
works just fine when I start X via startx. However, when I try to start
gdm (using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh) as display manager i get an error
pop-up with the following text:
"The greeter program appears to be crashin
