From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 6 22:46:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602B716A908 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhunter@malcolm.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (malcolm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.206.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD4E43D6A for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:21:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhunter@malcolm.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k56MLkFn069283 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhunter@malcolm.berkeley.edu) Received: (from mhunter@localhost) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.6/8.13.3/Submit) id k56MLkjb069282; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhunter) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:21:46 -0700 From: Mike Hunter To: Eric Schuele Message-ID: <20060606222146.GC67071@malcolm.berkeley.edu> References: <20060605214709.GC32248@malcolm.berkeley.edu> <4484EAE9.50108@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4484EAE9.50108@computer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (malcolm.berkeley.edu [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Session Menu" xdm/gdm problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:46:28 -0000 On Jun 05 at 21:39, "Eric Schuele" wrote: > Mike Hunter wrote: > >Hey everybody, > > > >I'm having a frustrating X problem. I installed X via portupgrade and > >hacked /etc/ttys to enable xdm. I can log in successfully both as root > >and as a non-priv user, but either way I get to a screen that says: > > > >Session Menu > > > >Load Session # Delete Session # Break Lock # Default/Fail Safe # Cancel > > > >But if I disable xdm and simply use startx, it launches X and my window > >manager fine. I tried deleting my .xinitrc but that didn't help. > > > >I have a feeling some X component isn't in place. I tried compiling gdm > >as a replacement but that didn't help (same symptoms). I was able to run > >gdmsetup (or was it gdmconfig?) by logging into gdm in fail-safe mode, and > >I could change some of the GDM settings, but I didn't see anything that I > >could twist to fix the problem. > > > >FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE May 12 > >xorg-6.9.0 > > > For xdm: > copy your .xinitrc to .xsession and see if that helps. > > gdm: > is a bit more complicated. Thanks! It did fix the xdm side and it did not (as you predicted) fix gdm. What am I missing? What's supposed to be the difference between .xinitrc and .xsession? How would I fix it for gdm? Thanks again! Mike