From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 19:18:16 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 3512216A420; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:18:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BF643D48; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:18:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7QJIAcE016358; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j7QJIAZq016353; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:18:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20050826191810.GA16312@thought.org> References: <20050826172304.GA13387@thought.org> <430F526D.8080908@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430F526D.8080908@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , 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 19:18:16 -0000 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