From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 18:40:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24271 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:40:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA03715; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:40:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: dorseb@hol.fr cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem starting xdm In-Reply-To: <199809011536.RAA18712@mail1.hol.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 dorseb@hol.fr wrote: > I bought freeBSD 2.2.6. When I log on it (ascii mode) I log on it > well as root. I can start graphic interphace with startx with > afterstep. > To start xdm I made all the modifications that are advised in the > book the complete freebsd 2.2.6 to set xdm (Ch 15: Setting up your > FreeBsd desktop p 229). > When I start xdm, I have an interface that ask me my > login and my password. The problem is that when I enter my login and > my password in it the interface (1) change itself for a weird screen > and then it comes back to the first interface (cf 1). Copy ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsesion, make sure ~/.xsession is executable, then try it. xdm uses a different startup file than startx. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message