From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 13:55:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D9E493A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp170.WORLDY.COM (ppp170.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.229]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10212; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:57:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:58:00 +0000 (GMT) From: David Banning To: Peter Schwenk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm errors In-Reply-To: <38A8D315.10318A28@voicenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your reply Peter. > The easiest way to get xdm working is to pick a Window Manager (the > program that provides a user interface in X; there's a large variety of > them, each providing a different look-and-feel) using > /stand/sysinstall. I will assume that you've already done this. Your right. I had fvwm2 and fvwm95 installed. > you have, there will be 'skeleton' files /usr/share/skel/dot.xsession > and /usr/share/skel/dot.xinitrc that you can copy to your home directory > as .xsession and .xinitrc, respectively. I don't have these files. Following your message I deleted (with /stand/sysinstall) both fvwm2 and fvwm2 - then I re-installed fvwm2 and installed tvtwm and kde (kde using ports). I hoped to obtain the sample scripts through this menthod. I thought I'd try what you have with kde. Following the loading of these applications I still don't have the .initrc or .xsession files you mentioned. I made a .xsession file like yours, but I still get the sample blank graphics screen - if I read this properly - X is working OK but is not executing the programs to run within it. My .xsession is the same as yours - my /usr/local/bin/startkde looks like; -------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh #kaudioserver & kwmsound & kfm & kcontrol -init & kbgndwm & krootwm & kpanel & kwm ------------------------------------------ and my .xinitrc looks like ---------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $ userresources=$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # merge in defaults and keymaps if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then xmodmap $sysmodmap fi if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then xmodmap $usermodmap fi # start some nice programs twm & xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & xterm -geometry 80x25+494+51 & xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & exec xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -name login ---------------------------------------------------------- > I'm guessing that you type in your usename, no password and the system > bumps you back to the login screen after flashing a blank screen > briefly. If this is not the case, please give more information. Yup that's what happens Thanks all I have - hope that's enough for you to go on. Thanks- Dave Banning tracker@worldy.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message