From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 13:17:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14469 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panam3.panam.edu (panam3.panam.edu [129.113.1.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14431 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fabry@panam.edu) Received: from earth ([198.213.49.85]) by panam1.panam.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24254) with SMTP id <01J153QDVFO68Y74XK@panam1.panam.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:14:34 CDT Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:15:38 -0500 From: "Alain G. Fabry" Subject: Re: xdm returns to itself To: Brett Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <00ee01bdd2c0$9f4adfc0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Returns : Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Fvwm-95: in function main: <> can't open display :0 Alain -----Original Message----- From: Brett Taylor To: Alain G. Fabry Cc: 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