From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 9 05:47:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E861C6 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 05:47:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E809D16AB for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 05:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CBB5E4AF; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 07:47:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.959 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.959 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.039, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9Swu5IWUPE53; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 07:47:02 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c224-156-70-80.bjare.net [80.70.156.224]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7684F5E3EF; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 07:46:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51B416D2.6020007@eskk.nu> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:46:58 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130516 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: XDM cannot start desktop after Xorg upgrade References: <51B30588.8060208@eskk.nu> <20130608172812.dadcbb68.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20130608172812.dadcbb68.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 05:47:09 -0000 2013-06-08 17:28, Polytropon skrev: > On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:20:56 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> I've been using XDM as login manager for years. Since the latest Xorg >> upgrade, XDM cannot start XFCE4 as it used to. > > Strange that this happens after an upgrade. What initalization > mechanism do you use for your X session? Do you use the "chained" > approach, i. e., ~/.xsession containing > > #!/bin/csh > source ~/.cshrc > exec ~/.xinitrc > > and all your session startup stuff in ~/xinitrc? (I'm using this > approach for many years with XDM successfully.) > > > >> Disabling XDM and starting X manually works. > > In this case, ~/.xinitrc will be processed. XDM does use ~/.xsession > instead (same content can be used). This seems to indicate that > the upgrade did not affect the programs called. > > > > > I've done like this lrwxr-xr-x 1 user user 9 31 Dec 17:53 .xinitrc@ -> .xsession These are the contents of .xsession # LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1; export LANG /usr/local/bin/startxfce4