From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 12 07:57:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08029 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08007 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 07:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-103.camalott.com [208.229.74.104] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA15546; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:59:00 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA05053; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:56:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:56:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809121456.JAA05053@detlev.UUCP> To: Joel Ray Holveck CC: "Don O'Neil" , In-reply-to: <199809121439.JAA27982@detlev.UUCP> Subject: Re: KDE & XDM (auto start of KDE) From: Joel Ray Holveck References: <000001bdde1e$f5363ec0$0200010a@digerati.whtech.com> <199809121439.JAA27982@detlev.UUCP> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> However, as soon as I change the window manager in the Xsession file >> to be KDE (startkde, kwm, ANYTHING with KDE) XDM doesn't launch it, >> rather it goes back to the login screen. There isn't anything I can >> do to get it out of this nasty loop, exept to log in, comment out >> the ttys entry and reboot. > Look at ~/.xsession-errors to see why KDE isn't launching. I would > suspect that /usr/local/bin is not in xdm's path. And the workaround (sorry I forgot to mention this) is to explicitly specify the the path to kwm (ie, /usr/local/bin/kwm) in the script you're using. Please send followups to -questions, where this thread should have started. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message