From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 13:52:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C9B37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mailbox.co.uk (smtp.mailbox.net.uk [195.82.125.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7E043FE1 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org) Received: from [212.18.244.168] (helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by smtp.mailbox.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19YB4U-0003n7-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:52:50 +0100 Received: from waynep by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19YBE9-000As1-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:02:49 +0100 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:02:49 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030703210249.GA41725@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-System: FreeBSD i386 with kernel 4.8-STABLE Sender: Wayne Subject: GDM and Metacity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:52:53 -0000 Hi all, I'm trying to get GDM and Metacity running on FreeBSD 4.8. The first time I ran GDM, I got a message saying no XDMCP running. I then ran gdmsetup in an X session and set Enable XDMCP. Now I can run gdm and it exits without errors, but nothing comes up on screen 9. I see gdm-binary running in a ps list. I've also tried changing /etc/ttys entry for xdm to gdm, but it still does nothing. My other question is with regards to metacity. I have changed my .xinitrc file to just have metacity on a line by itself, and I think metacity is running because CTRL-ALT-LEFT and CTRL-ALT-RIGHT appears to be cycling desktops (window appears in the middle of my screen), but I'm not getting a taskbar, dock, background or anything else of use. If anyone has any advice on these issues, I'd be greatful. I have checked the archives, but they appear to be down. Any search term, including FreeBSD returns The archive freebsd-questions contains the following items relevant to `freebsd': and no results. Regards, -- Wayne Pascoe