Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:48:48 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can not login in with XDM Message-ID: <20000730214848.A21137@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007301157360.27391-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 12:05:49PM -0400 References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007301157360.27391-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang said on Jul 30, 2000 at 12:05:49: > > According to instructions in Complete FreeBSD, I did the following to > start X automatically. In file /etc/rc.local, I added: -snip- > Now after I reboot, I see the XDM login window and I do the following: > > username<CR> > password<CR> > > It changes to blank and then back to the XDM login window again! Try creating a .xsession file in your home directory (and make it executable) with the gnome startup program, eg #!/bin/sh exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session You could also edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, but this way is simpler if you're not worrying about other users. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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