Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:00:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE & XDM (auto start of KDE) Message-ID: <199809121800.LAA00484@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:28:37 PDT." <000001bdde1e$f5363ec0$0200010a@digerati.whtech.com>
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> I can configure XDM to startup automatically, taking control of the console > (setup in /etc/ttys as per XFree's instructions), and sucessfully launch a > window manager such as twm, or any other one. No problem... However, as soon > as I change the window manager in the Xsession file to be KDE (startkde, > kwm, ANYTHING with KDE) XDM doesn't launch it, rather it goes back to the > login screen. There isn't anything I can do to get it out of this nasty > loop, exept to log in, comment out the ttys entry and reboot. Read the .xsession-errors file in your home directory. Odds are your path is incomplete. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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