Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:21:46 -0700 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Session Menu" xdm/gdm problem Message-ID: <20060606222146.GC67071@malcolm.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <4484EAE9.50108@computer.org> References: <20060605214709.GC32248@malcolm.berkeley.edu> <4484EAE9.50108@computer.org>
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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
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