Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:18:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: gdm question. Message-ID: <20050826191810.GA16312@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <430F526D.8080908@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050826172304.GA13387@thought.org> <430F526D.8080908@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:33:33PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----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. > Thanks much. I'll turn gdm on and maybe kde will also work. BTW, it'll be interesting to see if this works in my Ubuntu system where I have a short, sweet ctwm login underway. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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