From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 03:11:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 03:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA27533 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 03:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from (ukonline.co.uk) [212.228.66.197] by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zCLTv-0003w5-00; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:10:11 +0000 Message-ID: <35E6816B.334A689C@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:07:39 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" CC: fabry@panam.edu Subject: Re: xdm returns to itself References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't forget to make .xsession into an executable or things won't get any better (chmod 755) Chris R. Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > > >Whenever I start xdm and try to log in, it goes to a blank screen and > >returns to the xdm login screen. What is the problem and how can I solve > >it. BTW, I'm just learning FreeBSD and starting to like it more and > >more. Thanks, > > You probably have a problem with your user config files. Do you have a > file named .xsession in your home directory? What is your window manager > of choice? Is the window manager of choice listed in the .xsession? > > Read 'man X' and 'man xdm'. Don't just skim them... read them, even if you > can't fully understand everything in there. There is a lot of help > regarding invoking X in various ways. > > Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors for troubleshooting info. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message