From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 17:33:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 AF42616A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:33:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EDD43D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:33:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j7QHXG021480; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:33:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.192.190] (dhcp-64-102-192-190.cisco.com [64.102.192.190]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j7QHXF716518; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:33:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <430F526D.8080908@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:33:33 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20050826172304.GA13387@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050826172304.GA13387@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: gdm question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:33:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: | To the Gnome-savvy out there, | | About a week ago I had reason to reboot this server. I | had set the gdm_enable variable to ="YES" and when things | came up again, *voila*, I logged into my gdk account anf | Gnome churned up!! I logged out, then tried to login to | kline. My std login still uses ctwm. For some reason | gdm kicked me off; could the default except to see | "exec gnome_session"? and if not, the user is out of luck? | Did I miss some setting on gdm? GDM works on sessions. You would need to create a ctwm session. See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q16 for more details. And yes, GDM should work with ctwm. Joe | | thanks guys, | | gary | | - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDD1Jsb2iPiv4Uz4cRAv9eAKCTYSlTAyb4TKEfXEXlvs7aMoFCkQCfaCbK kneJXwdq9mzbBqCVb2j/Fkk= =4YOh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----