Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:15:38 -0500 From: "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm returns to itself Message-ID: <00ee01bdd2c0$9f4adfc0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>
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Returns : Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Fvwm-95: in function main: <<ERROR>> can't open display :0 Alain -----Original Message----- From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Alain G. Fabry <fabry@panam.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 3:05 PM Subject: Re: xdm returns to itself >Hi, > >> Sorry, I guess there must be something wrong...??? >> Don't have a .xinitrc-errors file on the system > >Well, I'm confused.... first you said you're using xdm, then you say that >you are using startx. Oops - no you don't - you said you were using >.xinitrc. Well, that will fail as xdm looks for ~/.xsession. > >Try the following: > >cat > ~/.xsession >exec your_window_manager_path_here >^D >chmod +x ~/.xsession > >Then try logging in again. > >If that fails please look at .xsession-errors and see what it lists. > >Brett >****************************************************************** >Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu >http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ > >"There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, > as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." > - Popular Science, 1891 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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